POP SHOCK

not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!

This is the weird thing about time. The only reason people think society at large can't function or exist without the use of AI is that it's become so normalized that we've forgotten how perfectly fine we were without it. The same thing happened when cell phones became ubiquitous in the early 2000s. People were just fine without pocket phones before then, but afterwards, we couldn't imagine life without them. The only difference is, I would argue, that cell phones, at least before they became mini computers, didn't make entire generations stupider or steal from entire industries.