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The
curse of the AI era:
People have stopped reading
what they write.
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Vadim
Kotelnikov |
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The global mountain of
crappy "artificial flowers"
is growing rapidly.
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In the grand saga
of human progress, we’ve survived plagues, world
wars, disco fashion, and even dial‑up internet.
Yet nothing has
prepared us for the newest global epidemic:
people no longer read what they themselves
write. |
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Thanks to
artificial intelligence (AI),
humanity has entered a golden age of effortless
typing.
Why wrestle with
your own thoughts when you can outsource them to
a machine that never sleeps, never judges, and
never asks for coffee breaks?
The result: tons
of
AI-generated messages, emails, and posts
that surprise even their "authors".
And
this global mountain of crappy "artificial
flowers" keeps growing rapidly. |
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The new writing
workflow:
Think of an idea.
Immediately forget
it.
Ask AI to write
something “short, simple, and brilliant.
Copy‑paste without
reading.
Spend the next
week explaining what you actually meant. |
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This is how we now get emails
that begin with “Dear [Insert
Name]” and end with “Sincerely,
Your AI Assistant.” Entire
business proposals circulate
with placeholder text like “Add
compelling argument here.” And
nobody notices.
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The rise of the “Oops, did I
send that?” society
People used to reread messages
before sending them.
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The irony of the century
We created AI to
save time. AI created text to save us effort.
And now we spend all our time clarifying the
text we didn’t read.
Humanity has
achieved peak efficiency: We skip the thinking,
skip the reading, and go straight to the
apologizing. |
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Beware of AI
Addiction!
Some
AI-Generation people get addicted to AI and
overuse artificial
intelligence dramatically. They
delegate
sensitive vital parts of their life
and business to soulless, unimaginative and far-from-being-perfect
artificial quasi-intelligence (AqI). |
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Takeaway
And on that high
note, we must never forget that AI, like money,
is a good servant but a bad master.
In
Human-AI partnership, draw red lines for
what AI may advise but never decide. |
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