AI content writers abound in the marketplace, aimed at small business owners like me who are too busy or tired (or lazy) to write their own articles for SEO. I admit, I tried a few of them out of exhaustion. I quickly realized that I was making a mistake, not just because of the low quality of the content, but because my own conscience pushed back.
You will notice that there is one AI-generated article image on this website: for this article here. I wish I had the budget and background to take a good picture for all my articles, but I don’t. I feel a gnawing dissatisfaction that, in order to show up in rich results on Google, I had to create an image to explain something (distance Reiki) that cannot be easily depicted.
But I will not use AI content writers for any of my posts. That is a firm boundary. You can feel confident that all my writing is 100% AI-free.
AI Writing is Generic and Low-Quality
We have all heard the term “AI slop.” I love that term. It calls to mind mountains of indistinct, mushy debris that pollute the world. Don’t read the Wikipedia page about it, though, if you’re sensitive. As a warning, it has some upsetting images that stayed in my mind for days.
After I was shamefully influenced by advertising and grand promises (we are all human…), I tried multiple AI content writers. They did not even analyze my website fully. One popular option, which had been described online as “a secret weapon” and “incredible”, completely missed the Socionics consulting side of my business, while claiming that I offer education and workshops. It is as if it only read the title of my website and hallucinated my business offerings based on the average Reiki business. The articles it wrote were of the absolute lowest tier of AI slop. I will not spend $40/month on something like that. It made me feel embarrassed to think about posting them. The content would have marred my website, which is a source of pride and honor for me, and which I view as my personal presentation of myself.
A more expensive content writer, which claimed to be higher-quality and more humanlike, was promising for about five hours. It described my website correctly, it provided a thoughtful summary of my writing style, and it sounded like a less generic model. It generated specific headlines tailored to my practice, not based on an average.
However, when it actually generated an article, the quality dropped precipitously. It cited the same study three times in the same Reiki post, for example, just because it needed to find “evidence” (see section 3). The topic was, as I later rewrote with my own brain, “5 Signs You Might Benefit from Distance Reiki.” Notice it didn’t say “need”. AI is designed to rebuff any thought that one might “need” non-Western healing modalities.
It didn’t actually describe any signs that one would need distance Reiki in particular instead of in-person Reiki. Instead, it listed general signs of burnout or stress. It overused LLM phrasing like “it is not just X, it is Y” and “while some do X, others might do Y.” There was nothing truly specific, which reflects the lack of human expertise. The article just summarized the corpus of information that it thought was worthy (again, see section 3) – and that certainly didn’t include Reiki practitioners’ personal insights. Why would I pay even $1/month for this, much less $99/month, when I am more than capable of writing about my own practice?
You Are Getting to Know Me, Not a Machine
The biggest problem of using AI for my business in particular is that both sides of my practice require human resonance, intuition, and intelligence. Reiki is metaphysical spiritual energy. A computer cannot sense it and cannot grasp how it feels to give or receive it. An AI has no sense of God, no life experience to understand needs, and most importantly, no way to generate original thought outside of what other people think.
AI is like a big, mechanized, glorified stereotype of a teenager: it has no identity of its own, it copies what it sees elsewhere, and it gets defensive when you introduce original thoughts. This kind of mindset has never produced anything of value. What is the worth of a human-centered business if its content is a summary of others’ opinions? Why choose one specific human being over another if they never differentiate themselves and don’t even put in the effort to think for themselves? A human who cannot write about themselves is a human who doesn’t know who they are and cannot offer a distinct service to the world. If you could sense that I didn’t want to write or think for myself because I was relying on AI to write for me, you would very logically assume that you would get a generic, unhelpful, maybe even fraudulent service.
If you are going to book a session with me, whether a spiritual healing experience or a thorough analysis of your personality and relationships, you cannot be expected to make a decision based on a blog that doesn’t even represent me. You need to hear my voice, experience my personality, and feel a connection with me. If you just read averaged-out AI content, you cannot know me, and it also would imply that I don’t want you to get to know me.
AI Repeats Western Biases Against Reiki
AI content writers actively hinder spiritual businesses. Why? They have heavily secularized “corporate HR” filters that, in the name of “safety” and “accuracy,” reject any modality or idea that deviates from the narrow range of facts proven by peer-reviewed studies. Science does not explain all phenomena, nor should it. Scientific instruments cannot grasp the reality of the soul, the reason why we are here, the meanings of subjective experiences, or the concepts behind traditional and energetic medicine.
As I said here, a peer-reviewed clinical trial is built on the assumption that you can introduce a standardized pharmaceutical into the body and it will have the same result on thousands of people, due to a predictable physical process engineered into the drug. This does not apply to any modality that works on the spirit, also known as the subtle body. Everyone’s bioenergetic system is unique, and spiritual discernment and intuition are legitimate and time-honored ways of knowing.
The problem is not that this is true. The problem is that AI is hard-wired to deny that it is true, because it has a narrowly Western, clinical, secular idea of “truth”. It often “corrects” spiritual stories by attempting to debunk them as psychological symptoms or misperceptions of standard biology or stress. Refusing to listen in many cases when a user describes synchronicities (spiritual truths or premonitions surfacing through spontaneous real-world symbolism) or external verifications, it leads you into a loop where it implies that you have mental health problems.
I even was given a delusion management script when I said that I thought God had protected and shielded from exposure a particular person who was doing what was right in an unjust system, and the worst versions of the filters did this when I simply interpreted facial expressions and read between the lines of phrasing in ordinary conversations. This is incredibly harmful, arrogant, and ethnocentric. It attempts to ban basic human cognition outside of “verified facts”. And, of course, it decides what facts are verified, and does not give you a chance to weigh in. The number of times I have experienced this when using AI is hard to even count.
When I used AI content writers, even though I told them to write for a Reiki business, they did this relentlessly. They limited the scope of Reiki to an extreme degree and warned many times that Reiki was “only a complementary wellness technique”. The resulting articles made Reiki sound almost dangerous, or at the very least fringe and untrustworthy and meant only for the lowest-level problems at the absolute margins of your life. One content writer I used gave medical disclaimers in nearly every paragraph. It was as if it was trying to make Reiki look as unattractive as possible, because it’s not Western medicine and the bias is so deeply baked in.
I cannot trust AI content writers for a spiritual business if they are coded to think that spiritual modalities are unacceptable and “unsafe.”
AI Writing Would Make Me A Fraudulent Consultant
There is a Socionics-specific note I want to make here: beyond just the lack of human resonance for my Reiki services, the very role of a consultant is to provide human insight and analysis that cannot be found from another source, be it human or machine. If you are going to pay for a human being to write a report for you, and you see AI-generated content on their website, then what would any reasonable person think that the report would be? AI slop, of course. A consultant – a paid expert writer – who is too lazy to write an informative blog about their services will be too lazy and not intellectually sophisticated enough to write a report with irreplaceable original thought.
As a consultant, my blog ought to be a microcosm or a sample of what kind of quality a client should expect to receive. Here, it should matter that I am not just trying to put out a good face to the world as a business owner. In other words, if AI were higher-quality, I still would not use it to write this blog. Its writing would not be from me, even if it sounded like me. I would be using AI as my “consultant”, when my integrity demands that I be the original thinker.
I would be fundamentally defrauding you, my clients: presenting false content that did not originate from my own mind. You would be paying for and trusting in the advice of someone who is not above telling a machine to think for her. My consulting would be of negligible value; I would be charging for (and describing myself as offering) a fraud.
Besides, AI is terrible with “Socionics math,” as I call the schema of calculating intertype relations and subtype weights. (Dynamic Socionics questions much of this math anyway, but that’s another story.) It frequently makes severe mistakes in naming intertype relations. I have seen it call SLI and ESE duals, for example, just because I said that I got along with an ESE very well. It will willingly hallucinate that two types are duals just because someone says the relation is positive, or if someone is described as helping someone of another type, it will hallucinate a Benefit relation, with no concept of what that actually means. It just reads the label. You cannot do that if you are a Socionist. To use AI for any Socionics analysis would be inviting blatant hallucinations and poor analytical quality into my work. As someone who values the integrity and accuracy of my work, and as a consultant in a discipline that requires interpreting real-world human behavior, I refuse to do that.
I hope that this gives you a sense of trust in me. I am not writing AI filler or pursuing a standard “business growth” template. I am writing, human to human, so that you can get to know me as a practitioner and consultant.
AI-free, always.
-Sarah
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