Can My "Soul" Be Judged by AI?
The Fear of Having My Most Personal Words Labeled as "AI"
The "Despair" of Running My Own Writing Through an AI Checker
The other day, I decided to run an article from my own blog through a free "AI content detection tool." In an era where AI can generate entire contents, I was curious to see if tools could conversely "detect" whether a text was written by a human or a machine. It started as mere curiosity.
The target was a piece of about 1,107 characters that I poured my heart into—an article about the traps of translation extensions and the ultimate solution I reached through trial and error. However, the result from multiple sites was a consistent "AI probability of 15-30%." It was an eerie, unsettling figure that I simply could not accept.
A judgment that I am not "100% human." This ambiguous number slowly chips away at my dignity as a writer.
The Trap of Judgment: The Irrelevance of Treating Reader Consideration as "Mechanical"
The first thing the AI snapped at was, surprisingly, my use of brackets and quotation marks. I had intentionally organized these symbols to ensure clarity when translating the text into English or Czech. This was my "wisdom" for efficiency and a sign of consideration for the reader. Yet, the AI checker dismissed this logical pattern as "mechanical." My meticulousness backfired. I couldn't help but let out a dry, hollow laugh.
What I Want to Express Most: "My Memories" Denied by AI
However, what caused the most resentment, sadness, and anger was the fact that the very parts flagged as AI-generated were the "living words" that overflowed from my own life.
・The phrase "I am not a programmer"—words that define my very existence.
・The insight that "AI has moods (levels of accuracy)"—a unique sensation I arrived at only after years of struggling with and mastering translation tools.
・The memory of "assembling words like a puzzle"—the grit and effort from my past.
These are not "likely-sounding words" picked up by AI from a dataset. They are words that could only be born from my time, my hardships, and my memories. Yet, the AI checker told me, "This is a mixture of AI and human." These lines are the very heart of the article, data unique to me, and yet the judgment felt as if it were saying, "Only an AI could know this." Nothing could be more offensive.
The "Sense of Crisis" We Should Have: The Day Individuality is Killed by "Averages"
An AI checker is merely a tool that measures "similarity" with vast amounts of past data. But what if, in the future, this "judgment" takes on a life of its own? What if we live in a society where a text is deemed worthless simply because it has a high AI probability? That would mean human individuality being locked in a cage called "statistical averages," where unique expressions are eliminated.
Having your own words treated as AI-generated. That is the fear of your unique experiences and memories being processed as "cheap, mass-producible substitutes." This evolution is nothing but a "threat" to humanity. We must not let tools dictate our value. This is what I feel, profoundly and intensely, right now.
