Writing in My Own Voice Again

I Outsourced My Voice to AI... and I Want It Back

I'm gonna be honest... I've been highly dependent on ChatGPT to write my emails, blogs, and even Instagram captions.

Sometimes I even asked AI to reply to my friends. Embarrassing, right? It got to the point where I would check with ChatGPT first before sending anything, and I hated how much I relied on it for something that should be simple.

I know that AI is just a tool and adapting to it is kind of necessary these days. But we rarely talk about some of the side effects. I started losing my creative instincts. My thoughts felt dull. Writing didn’t come naturally anymore, and my creativity felt numb.

Somewhere along the way, my thoughts faded and my voice was no longer my own.

Going forward, I want to change how I use AI. I'm going to make myself draft a clearer, more honest version of my thoughts before letting AI touch them. The raw ideas should come from me and me alone—not from ChatGPT. Sure, I’ll use AI to help me brainstorm, and almost always to proofread and catch mistakes (old habits die hard!), but that’s where I’ll draw the line. It shouldn’t build everything from scratch.

I want to get back to that old habit I had in school: sitting down, thinking, and actually coming up with my own ideas. I want to train that muscle again.

So here I am, writing this first piece myself—and then, yes, letting AI proofread it before I post.