Stars Rite and my Ai Pals 

Stars Rite and my Ai Pals 

A few weeks ago a very good friend of mine asked me, “when you created Stars Rite, what did you want to make out of it?”

To tell you the truth I haven’t really thought about that until she asked. Ever since then I have been wondering about starsrite.com and how the hell did I end up creating such a mess in the first place!!! 

Unfortunately my friend’s question echoed in my mind for weeks as to why, how and what do I want to make out of Stars Rite going into the future.

A few days ago I was tinkering around as I usually do to take my mind of off things. I opened one of those chat ai sites and asked it to make me an image of bananas and melons growing on pine trees. I specifically asked my ai pal to create that image in Van Gogh impressionist style including his famous swirling sky and stars in the background. I was so impressed with the result that signed the image in my name, printed it out, and hung it on my office wall. For days I looked at that image and wondered what the future of humanity was going to be like, now that we are in the age of artificial intelligent and robots? What will our children be doing in ten years or a hundred years from now? Now that they can create a whole poetry compendium and publish it an an hour, I thanked the stars I’m not going to be around to find out, or I would not be sleeping nights.

Suddenly it dawned on me. That image of Van Gogh’s swirling sky in my office wasn’t mine. Melons don’t grow on trees!!! And I’ve never held a brush in my life let along create an impressionist painting like that. That’s when the answer to Stars Rite clicked in my mind. I have created Stars Rite just for this occasion. Stars Rite came at exactly the right time in human history and evolution. Although it never occurred to me until my friend asked me her question. 

But now I have the answer…

In the introduction to starsrite.com we usually have this written… “Stars Rite is a free online self publishing & social platform. A place for writers & readers to connect, to Read, Write, Publish, Stories, Poems, Articles, Books…”

This is exactly what our site is all about. It is all about those two words “Self” and “Connection.” I’m a writer and a poet. I want to write down and “self” create my own words. Those words I scribble at night all by my ”self”, those words I want my friends and readers to see and “connect” with me about. Sure I can ask some ai pal of mine to write or draw a Van Gogh, but deep down inside I know that those words and those images are not mine. They do not reflect what my heart feels nor what my soul wants other to know. 

Stars Rite is a place where I want to read people’s thoughts and feel what they are feeling. I want to see their vulnerabilities in what they write, how they write it, in their broken grammar, their bad spelling, their un-rhyming rhythm. This is what the soul wants to see. This is what the heart wants to connect with. I want to share people’s dreams and experiences, and I want them to share mine in the poems and stories I write. This is what Stars Rite is all about and this is why it was created in the first place.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have any problem with many of my ai pals. Of course they are here to help me when I need the help. However they will never take my “self” away. Those words are  still mine and I want to write and publish what is mine, totally mine in Stars Rite. This is what our site is here for. It’s for those who want to express “themselves” in their “own” words, not the words of an ai pal or any other kind of intelligence other than their “own.”

So if you share this vision with me then Stars Rite is here for you. It is your home whenever you need it.

Thank you all for your inspiration and support. Okay now I want to kick my friends ass for making me think about Stars Rite and giving me a headache… she is toast !!!

Sam