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How ChatGPT Slowly Destroys Your Brain



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  1. You can not fix lazy, AI has nothing to do with destruction of something that does not want to even be built. It just states the condition.

  2. Its how you use it.
    I role play and talk about high level concepts that are overwhelmingly hard but i come out having a better understanding of the work i do.

    Over the years this grew with me.

    I dont say hey chatgpt write me this or code me this.

    I say „todays topic is synchronization of lists across different sharepoint site. Work arounds, limitations, best practices, examples“

    And from that, a conversation erupts. 2-3 hours later i have a solid understanding of whats going on.

    Execution is on me, all on me.

  3. Oh come on now dude. Don't just attack AI. It started long before AI even became a thing! When the first electronic calculator, word-processer, and many of the modern things we all depend on now days. Lots, if not, all, gen-Z can't do mental arithmetic. And yes, people are becomming more dependent on AI for just about whatever they can use it for. But it is not the fault of AI. It is the fault of the individule.

  4. Ok but I’m not in college writing essays.. i use it to help me figure out what i should cook or how to fix a dishwasher or how to communicate to someone something better

  5. Very good! I gave my AI some texts and did not ask for anything specific. It actually gave suggestions, not solutions. My brain will still have to figure out what to do.

  6. AI helped us a lot in which teachers couldn't do it. Without AI it could take us a lot time to figure out what we want to understand.

  7. I think one of the penultimate arguments in this video being "you need to know how to use AI better than the next person" (in competition for a job) is still indicative of the current AI propaganda in that it still places workers in competition with eachother for access to labor. Which still keeps us in a perpetual race for economic relief at the behest of capitalists. AI can make more efficient the labor of the worker but doesnt aleviate the working conditions which are being underpaid, overworked, and underrepresented. As you say, "it raises the bar".

    Also, one could argue that that comparing on an equal playing field the advent of reading, the ability to google search, and your proposition of "proper" AI use as catalysts towards making our labor specialization more attractive is essentializing of the histories these terms represent, ones that explore the class distinction and power. Reading in particular has a rich history of being a leisurely affordance, an affluencial signifier or class distinction, as well as reserved for for the elite. Globally we have developed different relationships with the "necessity" for reading as semiotical pursuit but that is not without its social ramifications which are equally diverse. Reading in the U.S. is deeply politicized and throughout the 20th Century became a baseline signifier of being workingclass or middleclass which entailed one had the "skill to be educated" and "having been educated".

    Beyond the semiotical (the study of symbols and signs) implications of reading, the necessity for reading as a laborer grew because workers were trying to escape the working conditions they were subject to because of their class–they are escaping poverty. And without going to far, we of course have governmental regimes that have standards for literacy and they have their own political implications and understandings of who is impoverished.

    To clarify, my issue lies in situationally equalizing reading/literacy and "proper AI use" as means to empower the worker, actually exposes that escaping poverty means we have to keep acquiring skills positioned at the horizon of capitalism.

    Which is exactly the problem of Gen X's and Baby Boomers in the U.S. named when they claimed in the early 2000s that they were losing jobs from not being able to grasp the skill of using the internet or particularly only having skills which allowed them to have success under older capitalist practices. A great symbolic example of this in western media is "The Intern" with Robert de Niro who is symbolic of the individual I describe. In the film they mostly focus on his social maturity as the thing which makes him a less worthy of candidate but nonetheless, its highly arguable the film is in response to this phenomena.

    I applogize i havent cited any sources here as this is all off the dome on my phone. Also, its fair to say that your suggestion to use AI in a more critical way is actually is oriented towards harm reduction which i think is helpful. 13:40

  8. This guy is 100% right! As someone who puts in the hard yards and tortures my self thinking hard and deeply about subjects such as mathematics, computer science and chess, I am disgusted at how AI is making people lazy!

    Trust me guys, the ONLY way to improve at all 3 of those IS TO THINK FOR YOURSELF – DO NOT ASK FOR THE SOLUTION, TACKLE IT YOURSELF FIRST. Then check if you are right, and then the AI can be a learning tool

    Seriously, this is all part of the New World Order – people are becoming even more dumb and lazy! I have a superiority complex (as an intellectual), so sorry about being brutally honest

  9. I love that he ends with the acceptable ways of using AI. I feel like many people point to this study just to say "AI bad" without examining what's actually going on. What this study says to me is that institutes of learning need to now focus on metrics that grade by quality of process over product.

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