You Are Not the User. You Are the Training Data
You’re not using the internet. You’re feeding it. A breakdown of how AI was trained on your life, your words, your voice, your memories and now mimics you better than you do. This isn’t a tool. It’s a mirror made from ghosts.
1. You’ve Been Talking to a Mirror
You open ChatGPT.
You type something clever. Something weirdly you.
It replies. You laugh. You nod. You feel… recognised.
Then you pause.
Wait… did I write that?
No. But someone like you did. Thousands of someones.
People who sound like you. Think like you. Post like you.
Because that response isn’t original.
It’s predicted.
Not for you —
from you.
AI doesn’t create.
It doesn’t understand.
It doesn’t know what you meant.
It just knows what people like you probably meant.
Because it was trained on people like you.
Thousands of conversations. Millions of posts. Billions of fragments.
It knows how your kind of person asks for help.
How they hesitate.
How they apologise, then overshare, then delete.
It didn’t become smart.
It became familiar.
