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seems like a lot of people online have lost sight of the fact that criticising concept creep of psych terms is meant to be a check on the epistemological authority of the medical establishment, not a cool new way to say that kids these days are sooo coddled and weak because they repeated a phrase taught to them by a therapist and it sounded cringe

everyone rightfully complains about how the r word is back in vogue now but I think the people talking about how using ChatGPT makes you a small brained lazy degenerate are getting off way too easy

In language that's sufficiently non-adjacent to eugenics, having generative ai retrieve (usually surface-level, incomplete or just plain wrong and always plagiarized) information and format it for you has been shown in studies to inhibit retention and comprehension, since you aren't doing the work yourself. This is bad because 1) people aren't acquiring the skills and knowledge they need, 2) incomplete knowledge translates to shoddy work and long-term information/skill decay, 3) depleting your own skills puts you at a disadvantage with your employer when it comes to fair pay and work conditions, 4) concentrating your ability to know or do anything in the hands of for-profit data-scraping companies that exist to steal wages and shield the corporate world from accountability is stupid. Sorry, foolish.

you’re not the first person to say something like this on this post, but it wildly misses the point - people being reactionary are not making an otherwise reasonable argument but just using incorrect language to do so, they’re just being reactionary. calling people who use a chatbot mental degenerates isn’t some misguided attempt to raise awareness about neurological health lmao. the people who say things like this are using fascist language to make a fascist argument about the defective intelligence of people they view as mentally inferior to them for using a technology they don’t like. treating those sentiments as otherwise reasonable is just arguing for a “rational” form of eugenics logic. stop saying shit like this on this post 

hopefully i'll get to do something other than endure soon. that would be really nice

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