// HYPOTHESIS_LOADED
I spend 60% of my waking hours typing. I write emails. I write slack messages. I write documents. I write this blog.
The dream of AI is "Automation." But can you automate a Personality?
I decided to do something dangerous. I downloaded my entire digital history: 5,000 sent emails, 50 blog
posts, and 10,000 Slack messages.
I fed this massive dataset into a custom GPT model.
The Prompt: "You are Me. You have my cynicism, my humor, and my tendency to overuse
em dashes. Never break character."
> TEST 1: THE "LATE FOR WORK" DM
I woke up late. I needed to tell my boss I would be offline for an hour.
REAL ME (Draft)
"Hey [Boss], running a bit behind this morning due to some wifi issues. Will be online by 10am. Sorry for the delay!"
AI CLONE (Sent)
"Morning! My internet provider has decided to wage war against me today. Battling the router now. Will be live by 10ish. Hold the fort!"
The Result: My boss reacted with a "😂" emoji.
Analysis: The AI was actually better at being me than I was. It captured
my "Exaggerated Frustration" persona perfectly. It knew that I deflect stress with humor.
> TEST 2: THE APOLOGY EMAIL
I forgot to reply to a client for 3 days. I needed to apologize without sounding pathetic.
AI CLONE RESPONSE
"Hey Sarah! Total chaos over here lol. I'm so sorry this slipped through the cracks. I'm digging out from under the mountain now. Here are the files!"
The Result: Sarah replied: "No worries at all! Thanks for the hustle."
Scary Factor: 9/10. It nailed the "Millennial Corporate Guilt" tone. "Total chaos lol" is
exactly something I would say to mask my incompetence.
> TEST 3: THE CREATIVE WRITING (The Failure)
I got confident. I asked it to write a paragraph for this blog about "The beauty of silence."
AI Output: "Silence is the canvas upon which the soul paints its masterpiece. In the digital age, we must unplug to recharge our batteries. Nature whispers the truth."
My Reaction: Barf.
It sounded like a Yoga Instructor's Instagram caption. It was generic. It was "Inspiring."
I don't write "Inspiring" content. I write grumpy content.
A real Human (me) would write: "Silence is nice because people are annoying and I am tired of
listening to podcasts."
> FINAL_VERDICT
The Clone is incredible at "Business Casualty." It can fake the corporate version of me—the version that navigates Slack threads and email chains. It understands the game of social interaction.
But it cannot fake the Creative version of me. It cannot have an original thought. It can only Remix my old thoughts.
CONCLUSION: I am safe... for now. The AI can do my admin work (please, take it). But it can't write my poetry. Or my complaints.