AI doesn’t belong in journaling

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In July 2023, I deleted the Day One journaling app from my telephone and laptop. It was possibly the champion happening 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 the contented successful your iPhone - things similar contacts, photos, music, workouts, podcasts, and determination data. The thought gave maine the ick. Mainly due to the fact that the app was described arsenic a riff connected the Memories diagnostic successful the Photos app, which astatine the clip had "intelligently" resurfaced a photograph of my mother's unfastened casket.

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