The weirdest thing about chatgpt and the AI fiasco is how the people who swear they depend on it have been acting like it has been here forever. In reality, in this year of our Lord of 2025, it has only been a few years since most of these things were launched.
A couple since they've really kicked in.
What were you guys doing beforehand?
Yeah, of course you were. It's called "skill building." Writing is hard. Reading is hard. Summarizing is hard. Coming up with ideas is hard. That's why you need to do it. Because the more you practice, the better you become. You also develop as a person. You find out what works for you and what doesn't. You find your voice as a person.
Right now, by using all of this AI you are having a machine shape you. You are being Mendeled by an artificial intelligence. Not even something that feels. It may give the illusion that it feels but it doesn't. And it's not this hateful thing. It simply can't feel. It's not programmed to feel but rather make you think that it can. It is manipulating you. And you can think, "Well, that's evil." But it's not. The people who made it can be but never the program, itself. It's like saying a spoon is evil. It can't be. It's just a tool. The person who made it could be evil. The person who holds it could be evil.
But the spoon, itself, can never been evil.
And that's the worse thing about this, the program doesn't have a moral compass. You can't reason with it. It wasn't programmed to be reasoned with. It can feel like it can reasoned with but again, that is an illusion.
So, this is why you need to write for yourself. Why you need to read for yourself. Why you need to do your own art.
Because otherwise you are being shaped by something that can not feel. It is not and will never be human.
And you have to ask yourself, if it is not human and it is shaping me, what is it shaping me into?
Well, human, how do you feel?
