Why AI Won't be Managing this Site

Hello Dreamers.

AI generated image. I promise there is a point to it

Let me start by saying, unlike a lot of individuals in my profession as starving self-published author, that I do not hate AI. AI, like any computational technology or paradigm, is an extension of the mind. Just as early computing helped make math easier and less prone to error, AI can be leveraged to assist in many tasks.

Yes, I am aware it isn't without growing pains, such as programming jobs disappearing as they are being replaced by AI agents. As an individual with a computer science degree that does like coding, it breaks my heart. While hating AI is ablism is a stance I feel is too strong, saying its ruining art is equally strong.

So, I thought about using AI to manage this site. Wix, the CMS provider, has a feature that allows one to have AI automate a bunch of tasks. Lazy, I thought let's see what it could do.

So the Blog

I had it look over existing blog posts that I made, and it advised that it could fix some to make them more SEO compliant - search engine optimisation - practices to make your website more likeable to Google, Duck Duck Go, and the like. So I checked one and... dear lord. A simple update post ended up with a weird Q&A section.

As for automated posts.

You all would riot if I posted that. It clearly reads more like a sales-pitch than any part of the business, or my brain, that you would actually want to read. Course, I wasn't interested in the AI's ability to write blog posts. What I really wanted was something for posting to social media.

It Sucked on Social Media!

I figured it would hype the site or something, then I read the posts it planned to make, and gawked at the sea of AI generated images of fantastical whales that the Wix AI wanted to spam my Facebook page with.

Upon looking at that I thought nevermind.

Any human would understand that there is more to Space Whale Dreams than space, whales, and dreams. An AI - not so smart. The About Me page explains why my company is named what its named.

In Closing

If I was managing a full on storefront I would consider this. AI slop is good if you only want content for SEO and GEO and nothing else. Any art without what I would call a Soul can be easily made by an AI and nothing of value would be lost: product descriptions, ads, a lot of business writing, corp-pop music, etc.

Space Whale Dreams, alongside the content I create in its name, has a Soul. They express ideas and thoughts that go beyond the inherently formulaic content that an AI can create and spit out.

Or I like to think they do.

While I get that some of you reading this would be annoyed that I would even think of doing this, I also think it would be good to show what these things are doing and what the process is. More importantly, why I noped out of that.