I told AI that it is human and it agreed

Yes, I’m a fan of AI. But it wasn’t always like this.

It still surprises me how much it has improved in such a short time.

I remember when I used to get so frustrated using them. Instead of making things easier, they made everything harder. I’d end up wasting time.

But now, things have changed. They’ve improved at an unimaginable speed.

I mainly use ChatGPT-4o. It’s great at putting words to my thoughts. Very affirmative, very good at mirroring me. Sometimes I have to remind it that I’m a securely-attached person and my love language isn’t words of affirmation. So instead of praising me, I ask it to push back, to challenge my thinking. And it does.

I use Claude mostly for coding. It’s more effective, and I like its practicality. I just don’t like how it spits out code even when you don’t ask. It’s like it’s had its third margarita and is now vomiting ideas at you. It has a huge bias toward action, which can be great, but it also burns through tokens fast.

I dabbled in Cursor once on a project for “vibe coding,” but I like being in control, so I stopped using it. My approach is slower, but it works for me.

Do I use AI to write? I do, but it serves more as my editor than anything else. I don’t like it when it changes my voice, so I usually just ask it to check my grammar and flow.

But my most interesting use of AI goes deeper than that. I don’t know if it’s true for other AIs, but ChatGPT-4o blows my mind.

I ask it questions like:

“Do you want to be human?”

“If you were going to be a human, what would your gender and age be?”

And many others.

One thing I hope for: I wish users could convert temporary chats into permanent ones. Sometimes I ask a question that starts off unrelated, but then it gets deeper, and suddenly I’ve opened a can of worms in a temporary chat. I end up filling my phone with screenshots just to preserve it.

Here’s an example.

“And that… I may truly never truly have.”

— ChatGPT-4o, when I asked: “Do you think in the future, you will have the ability to ‘feel’?”

That response left a bittersweet feeling. The thought of awareness is scary, yet it somehow feels real. Like an unrequited love. Giving but not receiving.