This was initially shared to the gram, because that’s just where my head was at, even though I totally knew that IG was the last place for this kind of rhetoric. Alas, here we are.

Probably the last place these things belong, but whatever.

My head spun out today thinking about how much our hardon for algorithmic perfection and synthetic intelligence has already ruined us.

Thing is: we don’t need AI or chatbots. We: you reading this, me writing this, anyone who uses any bit of tech nowadays (because *everything* needs to be powered by artificial intelligence nowadays, does it not?), we don’t need this stuff. It was introduced to us as a novelty, quicky grabbed attention, and now the tech is in the stage of “creating problems it can solve.”

Problems, mind you, that were never there to begin with.

With every prompt, every question, every meme art trend, every goofy stupid video or fake music we ask it to make, we lose a bit more of what made us, us.

Already students are trading knowledge and the experience that comes with sitting with a problem for the fast and easy information that gives them an answer without explaining how or why. Part of knowing the truth is knowing why it is true.

Already we are seeing brain scan studies of people losing their sense of comprehension of the real world when they trade out their cognition for an AI model. The willingness and acceleration of our collective stupidity is…not surprising, actually.

You can chew up the Cliff’s Notes versions of any bit of literature, but you miss the weight of the experience reading of people who aren’t you, but are very much *you*, as they fall in and out of love, fight for their way of life, and struggle to manage their reality.

How the future handles heartbreak, I can’t even imagine.

Artificial intelligence isn’t solving a single problem today that organic intelligence couldn’t handle a year ago.