🌸 Blooming Beside the Algorithm

We live in a world where everything new is immediately put on trial. Guilty or pure. Good or evil.

Real or fake

AI just happens to be the newest thing sitting under the microscope.

And suddenly the question floating around creative spaces is this: If you used AI… are you still authentic?

Let me ask you something.

Do I call myself fake because I used AI to help generate a pretty image of my simmer pot — something that still came from my hands, my herbs, my vision, my heart?

Do I call myself a fraud because I asked AI how to strategically plan a business— when the execution, the risk, the late nights, the faith, the failure, and the rebuilding still fall squarely on me?

You can dissect what you think is creative versus what you think is AI all you want— pull it apart, analyze it, label it, critique it.

But it was still built.

It still came from a creative mind.

And make no mistake— It still came from heart.

Creativity does not stop where AI exists. Creativity begins with the human who decides what to ask, what to shape, what to keep, and what to throw away.

AI doesn’t dream.

AI doesn’t ache.

AI doesn’t wake up at 2 a.m. with a wildflower of an idea blooming in its chest.

We do.

Like everything in this world, AI holds both light and shadow. There are benefits and there are scary counterparts. No different than God and Satan, both playing significant roles in the Bible. Both powerful.

Both influential. Both requiring discernment.

The tool itself isn’t the danger.

The intention behind it is.

AI doesn’t govern us. We govern it. It only holds what we feed it. Without human thought, human creativity, human curiosity — AI wouldn’t exist at all.

Think of it this way: It’s like being handed an apple tree.

Some people were gifted land, resources, and opportunity.

They didn’t plant the seed.

They didn’t water it through drought.

They didn’t learn the patience it took to wait for fruit.

But the tree is still there.

Does that mean they’re undeserving of the apples?

Or does it mean they now carry a responsibility— to steward what they’ve been given wisely?

AI is the apple tree. What we grow from it is on us.

And here’s the part we don’t say out loud enough:

Not every creative path has to look the same to be valid.

Some people paint.

Some people photograph.

Some people write by candlelight.

Some people use technology to help them survive, build, organize, dream, or simply breathe during a hard season.

None of that makes them less real.

So instead of policing how others bloom — Maybe mind your business. Let people thrive in ways that actually make them happy.

And if you’re feeling a little jealous…A little bitter…A little loud about something you don’t fully understand…Go give AI a try the next time you’re in a bind.

Who knows— You might just change your mind.

Or at least stop yelling at the wildflowers for growing differently than you expected 🌼

Wildflower Expressions 🌿