Yesterday, I shared a simple before–and–after picture on my Instagram. A personal milestone marking two years of steady inner and outer growth. Nothing dramatic, nothing performative. Just a quiet acknowledgement of how far I’ve come.
As a writer, I love testing how technology interprets human stories. So, I shared my before-and-after picture with Grok, an AI assistant developed by Elon Musk’s company, to see what it picked up. Turns out, it picked up everything, except reality! Grok looked at those photos and confidently announced:
“These two pictures are not of the same person. They are two completely different women!”
Excuse me?
Am I not… me?
But wait, it gets better.
Grok then doubled down, declaring that the pics of the woman in the blue dress (yes, me) was “a well-known plus-size model”, and that I was using “a fake influencer photo” for comparison.
Imagine being told you’re not you AND simultaneously being accused of stealing your own picture. Peak comedy. Peak confidence. Peak crock.
Welcome to the new world where artificial intelligence is so sure of itself that it will look at your transformation and argue with you about your own identity.
According to Grok, my cheekbones had “suspiciously changed,” my hands were “different,” and even the Buddha behind me was apparently “deceiving.” Because clearly, enlightenment slides around the house for fun.
Here’s the truth:
AI is fantastic at analysing data, but hopeless at understanding human evolution. It cannot see effort, healing, discipline, therapy, or the quiet, consistent choices that reshape a person. It sees pixels, not the person behind them.
My photos weren’t a scam, a stunt, or a stolen influencer post.
They were me, two years apart, shaped by real life.
Humans recognise growth. Machines, they glitch.
And this is precisely why I’m still not afraid of AI taking over the world.
Because the world runs on nuance, intuition, lived experience, and emotional intelligence, none of which can be coded into an algorithm. Machines can compute patterns, but they cannot comprehend transformation.
AI: “This is not the same person.”
Me: “That’s what happens when you grow, heal, and glow up, even machines can’t compute you.”
So here’s my message for the robots:
Calm down. Sometimes a woman glows up.
And here’s my reminder to you:
Enjoy AI. Use it. Laugh at its confidence. But don’t hand over your sense of self to a machine. You know exactly who you are, even when an algorithm insists otherwise.
When Grok gets confused, that’s not your crisis. That’s just Grok being all crock.
Have you ever had AI misidentify you or confidently get something hilariously wrong?
Tell me in the comments, I promise I won’t let Grok fact-check you.
