Cloud technology has allowed us to keep our data safe and easily upload-able and downloadable – but that is not always the case. It may seem strange to say for those who live in a developed country, but it is. There are cases in which someone using a computer may not have access, albeit instant, secure access, to internet, let alone fast and reliable internet.
While reflecting on this, it dawned on me that I could possibly be in a state without decent internet, and so this prompted me to find a good solution.
The second key factor in my transition is data protection and AI. Everything you type in Notion is an entry in Amazon Web Services databases (which Notion uses), which is being mined and scraped for AI training purposes – whether the company admits to it or not. Hence, there is no official original format of the pages you create – you can only export it in set types of formats.
As someone who is largely anti-AI, this was a firm no-no for me, as I believe every writer and artist’s work is not something to just non-consensually take for the sake of feeding a machine’s brain. As humans, we have true brains to produce creative ideas that we hold full rights to. We shouldn’t feel compelled to use artificial ones to replace our own.
Here on Obsidian, I have confidence in the app’s development team and the open-source community that they will eternally keep things private and locally-based, with logical minds that won’t be a slave to the AI overlords infecting the world of tech today.
Your writing should always be your own, and never secretly given out to evil tech bros who view it as nothing more than fuel for their own soulless goals of replacing your humanity of unique creative writing. I strongly believe in this as the primary incentive for my transition, and I encourage all Notion users to contemplate on their own usage and make the best choice for their writing.