Fiercely pro-Canada.
Fiercely opposed to government overreach.
This publication is dedicated to preserving the heritage of freedom my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren deserve to inherit.
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How I Use AI
AI is my research and editorial assistant—not my source of opinions, values or judgment.
My process is simple:
Rant → Reason → Research → Edit → Publish → Listen
I start with my own idea, concern or argument. I use AI to help research it, challenge my reasoning, connect information, fact-check claims, organize my thoughts and edit the final copy.
The experiences, opinions, conclusions and responsibility for what I publish are mine.
My life experience provides the ideas. AI provides the leverage. I make the final call.
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AI Is an Idea Force Multiplier
A photographer has an idea for a picture.
He uses a tool—a camera—to turn the picture in his mind into something other people can see. Then he may use Photoshop, another tool, to crop, correct, enhance and finish the image.
The result can be extraordinary photography.
Or it can be photographic slop.
The existence of the tool tells us very little about the quality of the person’s idea—or the judgment behind its use.
The same is true of AI.
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Ideas and Their Force Multipliers
Every society is shaped in part by two forces:
The quality of its ideas, and the effectiveness of the tools that carry those ideas from one human mind to another.
AI is the latest of those tools.
It is an idea force multiplier.
It dramatically lowers the barriers to researching, organizing, editing, illustrating and publishing an idea.
That matters because it doesn’t merely allow established voices to produce more.
It can allow people who had lost their voice—or never had the training, money, education, physical ability or opportunity to develop one—to participate.
I am one of them.
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Finding My Voice Again
I felt sidelined by life.
I was getting old. Long COVID left me dealing with brain fog and exhaustion. Spinal stenosis eventually attacked my mobility.
My latest set of wheels is a walker-rollator with all terrain wheels.
I’d much prefer the green ’69 Z28 of my youth.
My Z was identical to this Camaro:
For someone who may have only an hour of clear thinking on a good day, AI isn’t replacing my creative work.
It is helping me preserve my ability to do it.
That distinction matters.
Sometimes the greatest gift of a new technology isn’t that it helps the strongest voices speak louder.
Sometimes it allows a voice that was beginning to fade to be heard again.
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January 2025
In January 2025, I decided to start publishing my rants, opinions and political concerns on social media.
I felt then—and still do—that the Canada I had known throughout my life, a country that had been very good to me, was being transformed.
Canada remains one of the biggest, richest and freest countries in the world.
But I increasingly feared that excessive regulation, government expansion and declining emphasis on individual liberty were leaving my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren a diminished version of the country I inherited.
Think of almost anything.
There’s probably a regulation for it.
Listen carefully to the political language of the past decade. We hear constantly about programs, regulations, collective responsibilities, transitions and government action.
What I don’t hear nearly enough are unapologetic commitments to personal rights, individual freedom and limits on government power.
So, out of concern for my family, I decided to make my voice heard—and to join others asking what kind of Canadian heritage we are leaving our families.
There was one small problem.
I had no idea what I was doing.
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“Who Let Dad on X?”
At 74, completely new to social media, I took a political idea and prompted AI to turn it into an image.
My idea. AI was the tool.
My first meme was the result.
It was pitiful.
My daughter, whom I fiercely love, texted the family:
“Who let Dad on X?”
One of my first online comments was:
“Stop embarrassing yourself.”
Fair enough.
But something important had happened.
I had discovered a technology that could help take me from being sidelined by age and health problems to having a voice again.
And eventually, I found an online community of people who wanted to discuss many of the same issues.
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My Point
AI is an idea force multiplier, not a substitute for human judgment.
Used carelessly, it multiplies noise.
Used wisely, it can multiply knowledge, organization, creativity and our ability to communicate.
That isn’t entirely new.
Human civilization has repeatedly been transformed by technologies that changed who could communicate ideas, how far those ideas could travel and how easily other people could access them.
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The Great Communication Breakthroughs
1. The Town Crier — Shared Knowledge
Ideas and information communicated publicly in the village square.
2. The Printing Press — Reproducible Knowledge
Ideas could be reproduced, preserved and transported far beyond the person who originally expressed them.
3. The Library — Organized Knowledge
Books and accumulated human knowledge became locally accessible to generations of people.
4. The Internet — Global Knowledge
For the first time, ordinary people could communicate information and ideas around the world almost instantly.
5. Search Engines — Findable Knowledge
The vast chaos of the internet became indexed and searchable. Knowledge wasn’t merely online; people could find it.
6. Artificial Intelligence — Actionable Knowledge
AI can help an ordinary person research, compare, summarize, organize, connect ideas, challenge assumptions, edit prose, create illustrations and turn a rough rant into a coherent, publishable article.
That is a remarkable progression:
Shared → Reproducible → Organized → Global → Findable → Actionable.
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History’s First Social Media: The Town Crier
I experienced something that helped crystallize this idea during a visit to England.
I watched a town crier.
It occurred to me that the crier wasn’t merely broadcasting information.
He was creating a community around information.
That’s surprisingly close to what successful social-media creators do today.
The town crier gathered information, interpreted it through his own personality and experience, announced it publicly, heard the reaction of the community and continued the conversation.
Technology has changed enormously.
Human nature hasn’t.
And that’s one reason I don’t believe AI can replace humanity in publishing.
AI is more like an extraordinarily well-read assistant standing beside the town crier and whispering:
“Here’s what happened in the neighbouring village five years ago.”
Or:
“There’s another perspective you may wish to consider before you announce that.”
But the crier still decides what deserves announcing.
The human remains responsible for the message.
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Judgment Still Belongs to Us
AI doesn’t have my childhood.
It didn’t raise my family.
It didn’t live through my Canada.
It doesn’t have my experiences, my loyalties, my regrets, my fears for my descendants or my responsibility for what appears under my name.
I do.
What AI can do is reduce the enormous amount of friction between an idea forming in my mind and that idea appearing on the published page.
And for someone whose physical and cognitive energy has become limited, reducing that friction can make the difference between an idea being published and an idea disappearing with me.
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My Editorial Process
My process is simple:
Rant
Something strikes me as unjust, unreasonable, dishonest or politically incompetent.
Reason
I ask myself:
Does my argument actually make sense?
Research
I look for the available evidence, using traditional search, primary sources where possible, and AI-assisted research.
Edit
I use AI as an editor—to challenge wording, improve organization, identify weaknesses, proofread and help fact-check factual claims.
Publish
The final judgment is mine.
My name goes on it.
Listen
Then comes the part social media is supposed to be about.
I listen.
I read criticism. I consider opposing arguments. I learn. Sometimes I change my mind. Sometimes the criticism strengthens my original position.
Then the process begins again.
Rant ➡️ Reason ➡️ Research ➡️ Edit ➡️ Publish ➡️ Listen
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What Matters
I created this article essentially the same way I created that first embarrassing meme.
But there is an important distinction.
AI could not create this article without me.
The experiences are mine.
The convictions are mine.
The memories are mine.
The political concerns are mine.
The humour is mine.
The judgment is mine.
The responsibility is mine.
But today, with my age and health limitations, I would have great difficulty doing all the research, organization, editing and polishing necessary to turn those thoughts into the article you’re reading.
That’s where AI enters the partnership.
My life experience supplies the substance.
AI supplies leverage.
Together, they make publication possible.
A professional journalist, academic or political commentator may have the education, staff, physical stamina and professional training to produce polished work without AI.
Millions of ordinary Canadians don’t.
And that is where this technology becomes truly disruptive.
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The Democratization Problem
There is a legitimate downside.
When everyone can publish, everyone can publish badly.
The printing press produced great literature—and cheap propaganda.
Libraries preserved extraordinary knowledge—and plenty of books that deserved to gather dust.
The internet created access to world-class education—and industrial quantities of misinformation.
AI will do the same.
It will produce brilliance.
It will produce garbage.
And it will produce an enormous amount of mediocrity in between.
But we should be careful about concluding that lowering the barrier to publication necessarily lowers the value of public participation.
To established professionals, millions of newly empowered amateur creators may look like an industry being flooded with inexpensive AI slop.
But to us something very different is happening.
They have been given another chance at significance.
A senior.
A disabled person.
Someone with limited education.
Someone who cannot type quickly.
Someone living far from the institutions that traditionally determine whose ideas get published.
Someone with a lifetime of experience but no journalism degree.
Someone who simply never thought anybody would listen.
A tiny iPhone and a lifetime of experience.
For the first time, many of us can take an idea from our mind and develop it into something the rest of us can evaluate.
Some of it will be terrible.
Some of it may be extraordinary.
The important thing is that we finally get to hear it.
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The Enduring Question
AI is an idea force multiplier, not a substitute for human creativity or responsibility.
It can multiply noise.
It can also multiply knowledge, creativity, understanding and human participation.
It can even return a voice to someone who felt sidelined by life.
Like me.
The medium changes:
Town Crier → Printing Press → Library → Internet → Search Engine → AI
But the fundamental question has never changed:
> **What kind of ideas are we multiplying—and who is exercising judgment over them?**
That keeps the debate where I believe it belongs.
Not merely on the tool.
But on the human being using it. And the content produced.
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Bottom Line
The town crier filtered information through his personality and life experience.
The printing press produced Shakespeare—and cheap pamphlets.
The internet produced university lectures—and misinformation.
AI will produce extraordinary work—and AI slop.
The technology multiplies. Humanity decides what is worth multiplying.
This article is evidence of that partnership.
Without me, AI wouldn’t have this story to tell.
Without AI, at this stage of my life, I might not have had the energy to tell it this way.
Controversial?
Absolutely.
A technological breakthrough?
I believe so.
And if life has left you feeling sidelined, don’t assume the AI revolution belongs only to programmers, corporations, academics and young people.
Enroll yourself in AI University.
Tuition might be the best $25 a month you’ve ever spent.
You may discover that your voice wasn’t gone after all.
It was waiting for a better force multiplier.
By G.B. Lovell
(This article was entirely based on my personal observations. My rant➡️ my reasoning➡️ my research through relevant News, Google and AI searches➡️ AI editing, refining and making publish ready➡️ and lastly listening to your responses.)
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