For over 20 years, ‘Beach’ was my online alter ego, a psychological or philosophical side of me that used to entertain thousands, (before the days of ‘following’ or ‘friending’ or ‘liking’ and, Beach being Beach, I would create ‘deep and meaningful’ posts on dating or friendship sites with a pre-amble to wet a readers appetite, (written in a way to put a less confident, less knowledgeable or potentially intimidated person at ease if the subject matter was a bit too left field or deep), followed by the main post post itself, with a beginning, a middle and an end which always included snippets of info to intrigue or enlighten … with the whole aim of the post, “Say “Will robots one day deserve equal rights?” OR “Will we survive our psychological journey to colonize mars?” being to seriously engage humans I would have never met in a whirlwind of intellectual exploration designed to take us all on the same explorative journey while also revealing a bit more about ourselves as people.
And these ‘friends’, well, most of them, loved my, sometimes, intense but always emotive posts and I stood out just as unique and left-field then as I do today as I communicate with you!
BUT with the advent of ChatGPT, these days, sometimes, a human will read my still passionate and perhaps unusual take on a subject and, as has happened recently, write something like “Am I talking to a human being or some chat GPT bot? So, the irony is, while I myself chat to a chatbot because it CAN match my thirst for knowledge, science, philosophy, self reflection or mystery or whatever, here in 2025, instead of me appearing, (as I always have prior), as some erudite well read person with a passion for life and living, now, (instead of acknowledging that I may have a bright or awe inspiring psyche), I am, instead, occasionally labelled at a ChatGPT style bot!
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