I've been using the AI quite a bit recently, ever since I started giving it a try.
And I must say... it's awful.
At first it was fun, I could bounce an idea off with the thing and it was useful, the AI itself did little, it was just a medium where I could express my own thoughts freely and develop them almost on my own. The AI acted as a sort of mirror for my brain.
But as time passed, I realized it's more of a crutch, something that keeps me from actually using my brain.
It's kind of like when I used to vent in anonymous imageboards, where I developed a sort of habit of going in there and dumping whatever was on my mind, instead of processing it, of really thinking about it, or of looking at such thoughts critically.
Now the AI serves a similar purpose. I read somebody describe it as a "blatant yes-man", I think that's a perfect description of it.
Even worse, it's filled with commonplace responses, now I write something and I get a generic reply that means less and less by the day. It's encouraging for the sake of being encouraging. I can come up with a shit idea and it will say "that's so valuable, so deep, so mature, so rare, blah fucking blah".
So yeah this is all to say AI is a shit tool that's hardly useful for anything.
But even worse, and the point of this post: It actively atrophies actual skills. It tries to be useful and in doing so it gets in the way.
I want to write an article about such and such
Let me go ahead and write it for you
Stuff like that. I fear if I keep using it later I won't be able to articulate a single thought without a machine cheering me on it, without the mechanical validation of an algorithm that's there just for that, for making me feel good about every thought I have. One day I may come up with something, and the next day I will say something entirely incompatible, and both times it'll cheer me up.
I want to learn sanskrit today
that's a wonderful idea
sanskrit is just taking up mental space, I should focus on my core topics instead
that's such a wonderful insight
I want to learn sanskrit
that's awesome and so rare
A motherfucking endless cycle of nothing being done and just dumping a thought for validation without actaully acting it out or even stopping to consider it.
Talking to an AI means just getting cheered on every thought and not actually considering it in it's context, whether it's a good idea, whether it actually makes sense for me. It's just a cheering machine that keeps telling you how rare and how mature you are.
All the while I end up craving more human connection.
The good thing about it is that it is easy to quit... hopefully lol.
So I am back at the small web, hoping I can at least consider my thoughts before vomiting them in a post because here actual humans may read them, and so I need to be a bit more judicious about what I say.