User vs. AI

Writing a blog in 2026 leaves the author questioning if it’s worth it. Does anyone still read this or is this only a personal diary of thoughts and images from the daily life. First of all, social media is at it’s peak - Facebook posts, TikTok videos, Instagram reels… everyone and anyone creates a ton of original content… Blogging is slow, uninteresting (maybe) and possible outdated. Almost a bigger problem is: am I just feeding an AI LLM algorithm new content to to learn from and to feed on. I almost started researching on “how to stop AI stealing your authored content”.

I devised several possible solutions to the AI vs. content creating (especially writing) dilemma:

  1. Just don’t write, use other tools to express yourself. Teach, talk, record videos, music. AI seems to feed best on text.
  2. Encode your writings. As in days of old when Da Vinci devised its own code and mirror writing (not sure if this is true, or maybe I just saw it in some movie, but anyway…) he wanted nobody to be able to read his thoughts and inventions. Are we really returning to the era of 0 privacy? Or better said - to a time where creating anything meaningful in public is just feeding the system.
  3. Go through publishers, write a complete work. This type of creating is still popular. Publishers give you credibility, consumers read books, comics, newpapers. All good - feels productive but - making a deal with the devil just to get your name stamped on a book is not my idea of freedom.

Freedom

Now we return to the idea of freedom, independency and autonomy. Three things we are losing fast in the modern world. As many writers and educated people have pointed out: technology enabled us to communicate faster and to express ourselves better - but at a price of making us slaves. I think the creativity and creative production of human race has not gone up since the invention of the internet. It just circulates faster. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for the Web - I can learn a ton of things, research in the areas I couldn’t have access to just through a public library, et cetera. So yeah, opportunities are there, but I don’t seem to find more happy people lately, just the oposite.

So, anyway, this was supposed to be my rant about how I am unsure wheter I wanna restart this blog or not. Or, more clearly, is there a meaning behind doing things publicly on the Web these days… in writing… without some kind of AI safeguard. I guess, if it makes sense for me, than it’s worth it. Same as learning to code or learning a new (human) language. At the end of the day it’s about what the new skills give to you, not what you give to the algorithm.