Ai Doesn’t Belong In Journaling

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In July 2023, I deleted nan Day One journaling app from my telephone and laptop. It was possibly nan champion point I've done arsenic a lifelong diarist.

The determination was prompted by Apple announcing its Journal app astatine WWDC that year. In that keynote, Apple said it would usage "on-device instrumentality learning" to supply prompts based connected nan contented successful your iPhone - things for illustration contacts, photos, music, workouts, podcasts, and location data. The thought gave maine nan ick. Mainly because nan app was described arsenic a riff connected nan Memories characteristic successful nan Photos app, which astatine nan clip had "intelligently" resurfaced a photograph of my mother's unfastened casket.

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