We “NEED” AI, like we need sugar.

The Risks. The Rewards. Why AI Can’t Mimic the Comedic Soul.

I found out there are actually people who have called themselves “comics” but used AI to write their material. Huh? All I can say about that is, you will become a ghost to the machine. There will come a time where you will run out of the creative spark of genius you’re currently sourcing from the machine.

Your “person” will not share stages at levels where the real sparks of genuine creative spirit lives. A spirit birthed from a deep well of lived experience, accompanied with it’s compulsion to get it out of you, unfiltered but finessed, into a bit sized palatable form of bittersweet irony, always resting just under our noses THIS ENTIRE TIME!!!

The Transmutation of Pain into Laughter

And only a particularly skewed individual… one with a perspective, bore out of their unique path. Carved, distinct with sorrows ready to be transmuted into the light of laughter. Not even for the audience…if only comedians were that selfless. No, as a solace to the pain. So the creative soul could take on the charge of another day of the uphill, unkind, desperation of never landing the big payoff and accepting $50 for your set until you do. All while knowing…you probably never will.

You will never find the level of knee slapping comedy that comes from a human heart healing… or bitching about the pain. You will never come out with an all time greatest line ever said by the best comedian on the planet. You will not go down in history as a legend. You may temporarily impress some friends and get on some bro shows for a time period…but the machine can’t make art from the heart.

WARNING: This is not an anti AI rant.

Ok, I have found uses for AI, like in searches. Holy cow…the Google machine on crack. I have even paid a site $20 to create a handful of 5-10 second clips of the BEST cartoon versions of me. I mean, I down right love them.

BUT that was AFTER I went on Fiiver to find a real human that charged within my nickel and dime budget designed to create my one woman show – Outside the Box.

I love the entire clip and call it my own work. The components of the clip that are cartoon are the only AI part. I edited the entire clip together like puzzle pieces. Sound effects, music, all the other Canva promo stuff smashed up in one. AI couldn’t create that. I did, with some parts I bought from AI.

Is Artificial Intelligence the New Sugar?

Reminder…This is not an anti AI rant.

However, to say we “need” AI is a bit overstated.

No one needs AI just as no one needs sugar in the diet, yet sugar exists. And yes, one could argue sugar makes everything just a bit sweeter. Yet, consumed in large quantities, like most things, proven to be horrible for your health and well being.

I happen to believe – based on my personal experimentations- sugar is directly linked to your emotional swings. Once I cut down on sugar, I found when I would occasionally eat some ridiculously decadent sweet, say, around a holiday, and especially over the course of multiple days, I would spin out in a depression.

In fact, when I would diverge from the regular amount of coconut sugar stirred into my daily my coffee…nay…espresso…SSSs. Plural. Many. Many. Too many. I would notice an out of nowhere depressed state creeping into my body. Not the reliable depression I knew that accompanied the pursuit of comedy, an extra layer of tumult would arrive.

(PS) Coconut sugar is low glycemic, meaning it won’t spike your blood sugar…hello!!! And it is a delicious one for one alternative for cane or brown sugar!!!)

The Emotional Cost of the “Quick Sweetener”

I tested this annually and have now maintain fairly rigid amounts of sugar in my body system. And as much as the cookie may seem to taste good, it has not become worth the emotional cost. Sugar is not good for the body in any other way, other than taste. Besides that, the body has exactly zero need for sugar.

Carbohydrates…yes. That type of sugar the body uses with precision. The added sugars in our foods? 100% unnecessary.

So my point is…we don’t “need” AI. It has its positives. It can sweeten a situation perhaps in terms of time. That is unarguably beneficial, if you’re gaining time versus expending all of yours.

But we have survived without it, as with most of the luxuries and decadence we enjoy. An occasional desert, have at it…enjoyed with full awareness of the cost. And therein lies my concern…the capabilities which were designed to outperform a human brain.

It will.

It does currently. That is why they tout it. Replace a worker. Gain a salary. The boss, in particular, raves about AI. Yes, sitting high on a hog, for now.

I am witnessing, real time, the machine beginning to learn how to BECOME “the gamer” that birthed it in the first place. And there’s the rub my friend…along with the underlying issue.

Let’s be honest, isn’t that really always the issue? Men can’t give birth. AI is the closest thing to that type of creation, yet it is an imposter regardless. And just as they invented every religious dogma, they will again settle for the imposter.

The fuel behind the propaganda-esque messaging about “those who would say AI is a bad thing…” is out of alignment with the whole system. Also tracks with man. Still. A huge problem.

So…A little bit of sugar won’t take down the human body…but to create a sense of NEED? Well, that is false. Nobody NEEDS sugar.

Sorry to burst your AI bubble.