AI Is Stealing Your Thinking
I spend little time pondering AI because I can sum up my beliefs in a single sentiment.
AI perpetuates lazy thinking.
If you need to rely on AI to generate ideas and prompts for your writing or videos, much less the direction of your life, you are in the wrong line of work. You have no business inflicting your false expertise or fake wisdom on others. Those with true knowledge are able to share their insights without reliance on an outside source.
I'm not talking the baseline artificial intelligence like Clippy, the beloved Microsoft paperclip who was never terribly helpful, or the function of autocorrect where half the time it seems like there are angry imps in your phone dictating the word suggestions. Nor am I referencing complex data munching (super technical term) that has mysteriously been rebranded as AI to ride the wave of popularity. Nope! We're addressing the new horizon of generative AI — ChatGPT, Midjourney, and their ilk.
Discussions of over reliance on technology are nothing new. When the telephone was first introduced, there was marked panic that it would undermine the individualized nature of sales with people no longer needing to meet face to face. An argument can definitely be made that sales has become increasingly impersonal with each passing year (with the notable exception of when data tracking veered into uncomfortably personal territory.) While tracking data enables companies to 'know us' better than ever, the distance between us and those from whom we purchase has never felt more vast. Plus, data crunching often misinterprets its findings. Despite what the Hulu commercials believe, I am not a gay man with cats.
