Human vs ChatGPT - apology to 'Little Me'

I have to be honest with you – I am ?embarrassed about myself…

But just for a second, let’s go back to 30 years ago, to my Lithuanian language classroom… where I was a star, where I was called ‘gifted’, where I was loved by my teacher because I was ‘natural’. I wrote flawlessly, I used the language eloquently and most importantly I loved every written task I was given. It was not without an effort, but writing definitely was my favorite subject.

And now let’s go back to August 2023. I got mad (but that’s a story for another day). With kids being full time at home, and without too much thinking, I decided to write 1 LinkedIn post per day for 6 weeks – because that’s what ‘know how’s’ are telling you to do and because remember ‘ they have accidentally ?discovered the success formula’.

But what my beloved teacher taught me 30 years ago is that good writing takes time. In my mind, I was about to prove her wrong??. So I turned to ChatGPT. While it was fun coming up with a weekly topic and then copying and pasting it all into a pipeline, after 4 hours of this mind-numbing work I was exhausted, and the only word I could come up to describe my conditions was ‘Stupid’. But never mind that word – I was on a mission to prove them ‘thinkers’ all wrong!?? I was on a mission to ‘uncover success formula’.

Now let’s fast forward 7 days into my experiment, when the 1st message comes from my client Kristina Siliūnien? saying ‘ I stopped reading your posts 3 days ago – you are trashing LinkedIn with useless information. Stop it’. But remember – I was on a mission. There should not be a plan B in any mission!

A couple of days later I received another message from a College friend ‘whoever is writing your posts – should stop doing it. If you are paying him, get a refund. It’s disgusting!’ Yes, she used that exact word ‘disgusting’! You think that would be enough for me ?to stop and give up on my mission? Nope – I was determined – we do not abandon the ship!!!!

And then I went on vacation and left the world to figure out that they were wrong about me and ChatGPT all on their own.

At the end of my 6 week Trial Mission, I have to report that, in a month of August/September:

-???????? I posted 30 posts

-???????? 30 times I used ChatGPT

-???????? I got 10 likes in total

-???????? I got 1 publick comment (leading towards InMail sales pitch)

-???????? I got 3 unpleasant messages from friends begging or threatening to stop (by the way, those 3 you now who you are – thank you for being brave enough to tell me the truth, but I apologize if we haven’t spoken since).

And then I got 150 messages from strangers that can be divided into 3 categories:

1.????? ‘You are very cute and I would like to meet you’

2.????? ‘Can you handle 15 to 30 appointments with clients of your niche this month…’

3.????? ‘The websites we construct can go for up to $5,000…’

Oh the statistics! I do hate them!!!! But not when they are poking my eyes and stabbing me in the chest with a very sharp stick.

So yes, I am very embarrassed about myself. I am embarrassed that I gave in, and for the sake of time saving decided to abandon my belief that humans will not create human connections by using algorithms. ChatGPT does not have Emotional intelligence, therefore it can’t portray true human feelings, character, those little things in between the lines that make us humans real, vulnerable, true to who we are. I became unrecognizable, unrelatable, unpleasant. My language was stale. Instead of showing what I am great at, I sounded like I was preaching (thanks for that comment ?arūnas Rapalis )

The lessons I learnt:

-???????? there are no shortcuts in anything.

-???????? when you are building your brand – use your own voice, otherwise you are building someone else’s brand, in my case - promoting ChatGPT brand and helping them grow ?.

-???????? Have clear definition of what and how you want to achieve something.

-???????? Observe, adjust, repeat.

-???????? Don’t be blinded by someone else’s preaching.

-???????? Don’t be afraid to ask for advice from ?that little ‘You girl’ ?30 years ago and stay true to yourself.

- It took me only 30 minutes to write this article and I did not use ChatGPT once. So I can still do it!