This post is Part 2 of a series. Read Part 1 here.

In Part 1 of this series, I described the delicious experience of a new idea appearing in my mind, a fresh curiosity that I wanted to spend time with and possibly build out into an article or more. I wrote about the ways that the introduction of AI into my writing process, and my growing habit of using it for information and research, had started to change and disrupt the excitement I'd always felt in a new curiosity, the sense of adventure and zest that came with the birth of a new idea. I noticed that with AI's "help," I'd stopped surrendering to my own curiosity and stopped allowing my curiosity to lead the way and show me what it wanted to follow.

My mind had turned writing into an intellectual exercise, which I (or more accurately, AI) was now controlling. What I thought or in the past would have discovered was interesting about a new idea, for me, had become irrelevant. AI was to determine the direction of my exploration. I was following whatever AI deemed was worth following,........

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