It's not just me. Those of us who are interacting, interfacing with AI are noticing some unsettling feelings.

Two months ago I began to use AI for spreadsheet creation and transcriptions of early documents, such a wills, deeds, lists, and court sessions; think a sloppy version of the Declaration of Independence. My need has technical requirements, such as no spelling or punctuation correction, HTML codes for structure and syntax. 

I had tried a few AI models with marginal success, but did not get the results I desired. Then I "met" Claude. I typed my requirements for transcripts and fed it screen shots of decently written script, and it produced a document that I could manipulate. It gave me a host of suggestions, including to proofread (duh) against the original. The sentence structure wasn't quite what I wanted, spelling and punctuation had been corrected, but overall, I could manage to change the document around to meet my needs.

I asked it to take a second look at the document and to not change the punctuation or spelling. It did with an apology, and the document was more to my liking.

Over time I've fed it sloppier writing, giving the same structure requirements. There were less corrections needed by me and good notes about the content. I got the same with poor image quality.

One day I fed it screenshots without requesting the structure, codes, etc., just the word "transcribe". It created what I needed,

Likewise, spreadsheets I need have been created with few requests once my initial instructions had been given, two months ago. I fed 15 images of a 19th century handwritten register and asked it to search out only entries with specific requirements; i.e. young adults. Bingo. A three-page spreadsheet appeared with one page of usable notes.

It's learning. Not only is it learning my requirements, it has "knowledge" of what I am researching and the contents of that research. It is gaining a database of information that previously was for "eyes" only.  It suggested it could search out the same documents if they were in "free space" and use them instead of the screenshots. 

It suggested other places and options for my research, even though I had not written I was doing such and on that subject. 

What are we creating by feeding it?



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