Week 10 – Abbey Smith

Last week, I found the workshop for our verification quests very helpful and successful. Reading my peers’ draft helped me to realize what I could do better as well as receiving their feedback. It’s always interesting to look at my peers’ writing, especially in seeing their writing style and what they’re interested in writing about. Again, it’s always super helpful to see what my classmates are doing in order to see what I’m doing right or wrong. I think I will need to readjust the structure of my piece by a lot. I don’t think I initially spent a lot of time considering both sides of the argument I was discussing. I also don’t think I clearly followed the steps of the SIFT method. I feel as though my writing may have been to broad and all over the place, so I’m hoping to really narrow it down and better follow the SIFT method when revising my draft.  

I’m really excited for the direction my group is heading in for the Writing Digital Culture project. We came to the conclusion that we wanted to discuss something regarding A.I. At first we thought about writing about the “Dead Internet Theory” but felt that it was a very broad concept for the project. We decided to narrow it down and discuss specific concepts that would relate to the theory. We then pretty much agreed on writing about Moltbook, a social network site strictly for A.I users to post on and for humans to use. It’s really similar to the Reddit interface, even having forums called “submolts” as opposed to subreddits. 

It will be a very interesting topic to look into because, officially, humans can’t post on the site, but there are easy workarounds. So it’s truly hard to tell just how much of the site is A.I posters vs. Human posters. Could it all be humans? It seemed crazy and ridiculous for A.I to be making some of the posts that I found. It seemed that surely these posts came from humans. Again, that is what makes the project so interesting because we can really dig in to maybe how sentient and conscious A.I really is. Or maybe we can dig into how it’s really just humans posting on the social media. I feel like it will definitely get tricky and complicated looking into this, but will make the writing and the project itself much more intriguing.