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"ChatGPT is exceedingly tempting, offering the promise of limitless knowledge. You may begin by using it for small, seemingly insignificant tasks, but over time, you start relying on it for increasingly meaningful ones. Before you realize it, you’ve surrendered core human capabilities—and become fully dependent. There’s no going back."
May 27, 2025
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🤖I know people are going to be using it a lot maybe for dumb menial stuff, but I have not had a moment where it felt compellingly as though it was going to “take over”. Everybody I’ve seen who has made that argument is somehow relying on it to be true, so I can’t trust them. I immediately judge anybody who tells me they use chatGPT for something related to their work. And I don’t think I’m being unfair. At best, something like chatGPT is a tool that people can use for brainstorming, but directly using chatGPT output is just pathetic to me. I dunno.
Jan 2, 2025
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🚫make yourself navigate life the way you did before chatgpt. i’m sure this likely covers it: turn off ai on any apps/sites, manually use a dictionary and thesaurus, learn research skills, use databases or relevant websites to find other info, manually look up general writing tips or even take a writing course, look at professional development sites for tips on writing better emails/resumes/etc, ask a friend or mentor questions or help proofreading, read more books, do crossword puzzles, go to a library and ask a librarian for guidebooks/research assistance/etc.
remind yourself that AI over time makes you less intelligent because you no longer have to use critical thinking skills and stop learning new things. it is easy to avoid and i imagine you’ll actually get better at whatever you’re using it for once you practice, making it even easier. i don’t use AI to write essays/ emails or edit or look things up for me, and many others don’t as well, so i promise it’s more than doable!!
plus it’s so bad for the environment and human rights so if the above isn’t compelling enough, you can guilt yourself into not using it?
Jul 14, 2025
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🤖I fully believe that the AI chatbots are very intentionally being pushed as an educational/social/creative “tool” to make people less able to have creative and critical thought. if we put all of that energy into something as convenient as chatgpt, whether it’s to help write an essay or use as a “therapist,” we think we’re satiating that human urge to be creative. Creativity is at its most powerful when people can pull from the discomfort and inspiration of the human experience, which can lead to critiques towards the oligarchs running the country right now. convenience will always win people over when they’re exhausted from working in this late stage of capitalism. Also, it would be incredibly easy to inject the bots with propaganda and misinformation.
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