I’m furious with YouTube after they removed my channel without any warning and without any clear explanation as to why they have done so.
I have appealed and am hoping that they restore my channel and give some explanation as to why it was removed.
Most of the videos on this website are embedded from my Youtube channel. So for now, these videos won’t work.
I’ve always had a great experience with YouTube and up until this point always thought very positively about the company.
This experience has been a sobering reminder that social media platforms can remove my content or your content for any reason and at any time. With this in mind, I think regardless of the outcome of my appeal with YouTube, I’ll be moving away from using their platform.
In future, my plan is for all of my videos to be hosted on hosting for this site, with a specific My Video Channel page.
I’m in a number of facebook groups for Writers and Authors. I’m not an active participant in any of these groups due to very limited energy, very limited time and the way that I use social media.
However, whilst in the waiting room for a medical appointment today, I popped on facebook and saw a user asking this question on my feed:
“Any authors ever get to a point where you want to give up? I’m there… what made you keep going?” – A facebook user
My creative experience for each of my books, articles and short stories written has been unique. Even if I’ve had a similar or the same creative process as a previous creative work. For more details around creative writing processes, see my posts: Beginning, Middle & End.
I think the reason every creative experience is different and unique is because of the sheer number of complex and multifaceted variables involved in the process.
I’ve recently seen an advert on social media for an AI that provides emotional support on demand 24/7. It appeared to target vulnerable people, which I find highly unethical.
Here are some of the dangers of these sort of services:
No Empathy Machines can’t empathise with you. They may read like they can, from how the structure their responses, but it is false.
Empathy is defined as:
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
This leads to a perceived connection, which eventually you will realise is a false connection. You will be left feeling hurt and deeply disappointed.
False Connection In the early stages of this false connection, you will likely disconnect from real people. This is deeply emotionally and mentally unhealthy.
Emotional Dependence Emotional dependence and the decreased emotional resilience that follows will not be good for you if you use one of these apps. Having an app that is available 24/7 that claims to be emotionally available to you, appears to be so, will lead to you becoming emotionally dependent on it. Being emotionally dependant on any person or thing isn’t healthy.
Bad Advice AI has been known to give incorrect information and bad advice. At worst, this advice could be extremely harmful.
Can Reinforce negative thoughts, feelings or behaviours AI apps will repeat back to you what you’ve just said. This is to check understanding, but in these emotional support apps is also to validate what you’ve typed. This repetition can reinforce negative thoughts, feelings or behaviours.
This is especially important as part of the role of a good therapist is to challenge negative thoughts, feelings or behaviours.
No Safeguarding Should you go into crisis and become suicidal, the app won’t take actions to keep you safe.
A role of any therapist is to safeguard you and others from harm.
Lack of Emotional Growth AI won’t be able to help you grow emotionally. But a therapist may make suggestions that help people to grow emotionally.
Data Privacy Breeches Your data maybe hacked or not kept safe and secure.
Blog soon,
Antony
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