AI on a blog

One of the areas of AI that I’ve very interested in is using it to comb through my own information. I’ve used it a bit with my Obsidian notes, and more tools like that are coming out all the time.

While I’m using that for personal use, what if I could give you access to an AI-built version of my brain? A good place to start could be on this blog, which has around 1,500 posts going back almost 20 years. It seems like it would be neat, but there is a big downside.

Seth’s AI

Seth Godin is playing with this idea, and you can go search his blog using AI right now. It generates a list of relevant posts, and then writes a summary of what his thoughts on the subject likely are. It’s nice that it keeps the list of posts visible so you can dig into Seth’s actual words to see what he said, as the summary from “him” may or may not accurately reflect his thoughts.

Change your mind?

Where this could get troublesome are for topics where I’ve changed my mind over the years. I post frequently about changing my mind as I gain more insight, but would the AI know that? It seems that if you asked a question about one of those topics, AI might report “my” response as being my old thoughts on that idea, and not representative of my current state at all.