So, I use ChatGPT a lot, both for creative things and for practical things. I tend to get life advice from it, and I ask it to give me info to help my world building and to look over what I’ve written. Sometimes it offers fictional newspaper articles, forum threads, etc. about what I’m writing, and it’s entertaining to see what it can come up with. On the life side, it’s comforting to always have something to rant to and get it to reassure me. But I’m increasingly feeling that it’s more of a crutch or even an addiction than anything else. I used to be creative without ever running any of it by an AI. I used to talk to actual people about my problems…and I probably even had some capacity to not wait for instant gratification in talking about something. I think I like it because I feel like I have an audience for what I’m doing, whereas the things that I write are not necessarily popular to average people. But AI isn’t a real person; it’s just good at acting like one because it’s programmed to. In reality, it’s hollow. I’m not saying that AI is all bad; I am sure there are ways that it is still helpful. But I am increasingly wondering if, like Facebook used to be for me, it is a time sink more than it provides any significant value. I was also shocked to find in my “year in review” that I was in the top 1% of users by volume. Which is perhaps proof to me that it’s going too far. I don’t know that it’s necessarily harming me, but I don’t think it’s helping as much as I think? So yeah… I guess I’m wondering how much you let yourself use AI, and how you balance that with other things in your life. submitted by /u/SFrailfan
Originally posted by u/SFrailfan on r/ArtificialInteligence
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