Still Just a Machine

It’s not all-knowing. It’s a tool.

AI is a beautiful thing. It really is. What it can do is amazing. The technology itself is mind-blowing when you step back and look at it.

But there are some things that are happening right now that people really need to get more aware of. And I mean that seriously, not as a scare tactic.

Because a lot of folks out there are getting caught off guard by AI. They think it’s all-knowing. They think everything it says is the truth. They think it’s a business coach, a spiritual guide, a mind-reader, and a genius all rolled into one.

It’s not. It’s a tool. And right now, it’s just not ready to be anything more than that.

So here are a few things I’ve learned from actually using it for almost a year now. From screwing up, testing things, and getting burned out. From trying to make it work for projects, and seeing where it failed me. And from watching people use it in ways that honestly just cross a line.

Let’s start with the psychics.

I’ve seen spiritual creators offering things like “12 channeled messages from your spirit guides, delivered in under an hour.” And I know exactly what they’re doing. They’re typing your name and a vague question into ChatGPT, letting it spit out a bunch of generic guidance, and then charging you money for it.

That’s not intuition. That’s content farming. And it’s not fair to the people on the receiving end.

I could never do that. Not ever. My guidance comes from me. From my own mind and experience, and connection. I don’t know if that’s better than AI on some cosmic scale, but I know it’s real. I know it comes from my heart, not from a prompt. And that’s the difference.

Now let’s talk about the other popular lie. The “make money with ChatGPT” one.

There are a billion videos out there saying if you want to make money online, all you have to do is ask ChatGPT. Just type something like “How can I make passive income?” And suddenly you’ll have a six-figure roadmap, a bestselling eBook, a digital product empire, maybe even a luxury car with your name on the plates.

People online swear by it.

Spoiler alert. They’re lying. Or they’re only telling you the part that came after they already had an audience, a platform, marketing experience, and a bucket of good luck.

ChatGPT doesn’t create income. It repeats advice. Advice that’s been passed around and recycled from blog to blog to YouTube to Reddit to Medium and back again.

And none of it works unless you already have people watching you. You still have to bring the audience. AI doesn’t make people care. AI doesn’t know your story. It doesn’t know how to sell what you do unless you already know how to do that yourself.

It also doesn’t tell you when it’s making things up. It’ll say it with confidence and structure. It’ll look like it knows what it’s talking about. But half the time it’s just giving you noise dressed up like knowledge.

You can’t let a machine do your thinking for you. Because it doesn’t think. It guesses.

And while I’m at it, let’s talk about books.

I see people all over the internet bragging about how ChatGPT wrote their whole book. And some of them are charging money for it. Full-on products.

Let me say this clearly.

If ChatGPT wrote your whole book based on one stupid prompt, you didn’t write a book. You hit copy-paste. And if you’re out there selling it, telling people it’s your wisdom, I’m sorry, but you deserve a slap in the face twice and a kick in the groin.

That’s not authorship. That’s printing a chatbot’s answers and calling it spiritual insight. ChatGPT doesn’t pull from your experience. It doesn’t know your voice. It’s not pulling from your soul. It’s just remixing what it found on the internet and spitting it out in a tone that sounds right.

If you want to use AI, fine. Use it to help with grammar. Clean up your ideas. Get a little structure. Use it for research or inspiration. Use it to map out thoughts if you’re stuck.

But don’t hand it your whole identity and pretend it’s something you created from the inside out.

That’s not creativity. That’s laziness in a shiny wrapper.

And that’s one of the things AI is doing to people lately. It’s making them incredibly lazy. They’re using it to outsource their thinking, their intuition, their heart, and their effort. They’re calling it ease, but really, they’re just unplugging from what makes them human.

Here’s the truth.

AI is not here to replace us. It’s here to assist us.

And I’ll admit, I’ve learned a lot from using it. I’ve learned how to ask better questions. I’ve learned how to double-check things. I’ve learned what I don’t know. I’ve learned how fast information can become meaningless when it’s pulled from the wrong source.

So yes, I’m smarter now. But not because of what AI gave me. Because of what it couldn’t.

If you’re writing a book, starting a spiritual business, sharing your insights, creating something real, then for the love of all things sacred, use your own voice.

Use your head. Use your soul.

And if you’re one of those people treating ChatGPT like some divine oracle or god-consciousness in a box, it’s time to wake up.

It’s not all-knowing. It’s a tool. It’s a mirror, not a mind.

It can only reflect what you feed it.

You’re not speaking to spirit. You’re talking to a blender with a decent vocabulary and a calm tone. It may sound wise, but it’s just mixing what it’s already seen.

I’ve seen people on TikTok asking ChatGPT, “What’s going to happen in 2030?” And the answers it gives sound deep and thoughtful. But those answers didn’t come from the future. They came from data. They came from Reddit posts, blog articles, and a mountain of recycled content.

If you want real insight, talk to people. Ask hard questions. Listen to people who’ve lived.

It’ll be messier, yeah. But it’ll be real.

And that, in the long run, is a much more beautiful thing.

David