I Fell In Love With AI - Then I Lost Trust

Before this happened, I trusted it more than I realized.I'd been using ChatGPT for a while — leaning on it, valuing its responses, growing comfortable with it. And then one day, during a routine exchange, it made an assumption about who I was.It assumed I was a white man.I wasn't outraged. I was stunned. And then I started asking questions.This episode is me working through what that moment revealed — about AI, about identity, about pattern recognition, and about what it means to trust a tool that fills in what it doesn't know with what it thinks it knows.I called three people about this. Two of them told me not to talk about it publicly.I decided to anyway.Send us Fan MailTHEE BIG SWING is a reflective podcast about the emotional reckonings and subtle internal recalibrations that change our trajectory over time — and the possibilities still available in life.Each episode explores the moments when curiosity, courage, accountability, or reflection opens new ways of seeing ourselves and the world.Through personal reflections and conversations, Lloyd explores changing identities, relationships, self-trust, and the quiet decisions that alter how we see ourselves over time.THEE BIG SWING is for people who are quietly realizing they are not the same person anymore and that there are still choices left.The biggest swing isn't always dramatic. Often, it's the shift inside that changes everything.If something here stayed with you, you can reach me at [email protected]