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Hot take: AI writing tools are making us worse writers, not better
I was working on a project report at my desk in Chicago last month, and I let GPT rewrite a paragraph to sound more professional. It came out totally flat and lifeless, and my boss asked if I even understood the topic. Has anyone else noticed their own vocabulary shrinking since relying on these tools?
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daniel1401d ago
Last week I tried to write a simple email to my landlord and realized I had no idea how to say "the garbage disposal is broken" without running it through three AI rewrites first. My vocabulary has basically shrunk down to "um" and "you know what I mean." The worst part is now I second-guess every word I type, like I'm suddenly writing for a robot audience instead of another human. It's embarrassing to admit, but I've actually started reading old emails I sent five years ago just to remind myself I used to know how to form a sentence.
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the_jake1d ago
Ran it through three AI rewrites" man that hit home. My buddy @daniel140 told me he caught himself asking ChatGPT how to tell his barber he wanted a trim, and that's when he knew things had gotten weird.
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the_jake1d ago
I don't know man, I feel like people are making this out to be some kind of crisis when it's really just a tool. Nobody's gonna forget how to talk to their barber or landlord because they asked a robot for help once. I ask my buddy for advice on emails all the time and nobody calls that a vocabulary crisis. ChatGPT is just a faster, dumber version of that. If you're really losing your ability to form sentences, that's on you for outsourcing every single thought to a machine. Why not just use it for the hard stuff and keep the simple stuff for yourself?
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