As I type this article, each strike of my keyboard is being recorded by Microsoft. They claim it is to improve the services it provides me, but I believe otherwise.
It is to train their AI.
Not only does it know how fast I can type my thoughts, it also knows how they come to fruition. It knows what I remove, what I add. When I make those changes and such.
If I were to write in a platform such as Facebook or Medium, it could, and most likely would, do the same. What up Gramerly, you see all.
Further, an outside source could track and analyze with artificial intelligence my publication of said articles, over a period of time, and in part, map my personality, or online conception thereof.
Now I’m writing loose to throw off the computers. [edit — add “and varying my style]
This is helpful to an extent with spellcheck and punctuation, but that has been around and near perfected for decades.
A thought through my head for years has been that I need to get the thoughts in my head out there, but knowing at the same time I am training not only my replacement, but the replacement of all writers and thinkers.
I am building others capital without compensation. I need capital for the distribution of my thoughts.
Who would gain from my thoughts? Who could use my thoughts against me?