INHUMANE RESPONSE

Inhumane Response to a Human Story

Some people think it’s okay to dehumanize others' experiences. How do we address this inhumanity?

Deirdre ("Writer in the Abyss" )
Never Stop Writing
Published in
3 min readSep 27, 2024

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AI image of woman in distress at being judged as non-human
Woman feeling judged — Image credit to Copilot AI

Bewildering comment questioning my authenticity

This was a response to a story I recently wrote about a very personal experience. The responder left this comment.

“Can AI emulate the same kind of “gut feeling”… a question to ponder.”

Before this response, I had genuinely engaged in a good article he wrote, and I highlighted and commented on important points. He obviously didn’t value or appreciate my “authenticity”, taking it out on me by making an unfair comment about an authentic story I wrote.

The story he alleged AI could “emulate” (ie) gut feeling

The story below I wrote was based on a very personal experience. I was hesitant to even write this story. Every comment I received was good, apart from the above comment. This commenter questioned whether AI could emulate my “gut feeling”, and he never responded to the content of my story at all. I was hurt by this response. He never even tried to discuss my story, and, his response…

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