My actual complaint about chatgpt, and why I think AI might be a bad thing.

This is a very long post, so be prepared for a lot of info. I’m sorry for the length of it, but I’m not sure how to make it shorter while still being as clear and concise.<br><br>My complaint is not about the quality of the responses, the capability of gpt, or the speed of the responses. I don’t think it’s underperforming. I have a concern that I’ve mentioned in a few comments in this sub but I thought it’d be important to bring it up in a post as well as I’ve worked out what the issue is. I’m not sure if anyone has noticed this before, but I’m a professional editor and writer, and I was using ChatGPT as a productivity tool to help me write more in less time. I don’t use it to write full passages, but I use it to give me ideas so I can go away and write them myself. I find it really worked well for this.<br><br>The issue I have isn’t with the output, but with the input. I noticed that whenever I write anything for the day, and then come back two or three days later to keep writing, I can’t actually write it myself. I have to use ChatGPT for ideas, because I can’t actually write any more. It’s like ChatGPT is closing a part of my brain. I was very confused by this initially, as I was able to write for a very long time before this. It felt like my creativity was being bottled up and I couldn’t actually write anything at all while the bottle was closed. It was like ChatGPT was closing a part of my brain, and in order to open it, I needed to use ChatGPT.<br><br>I think the reason why this is happening is because ChatGPT doesn’t actually help you come up with your own ideas. It doesn’t really inspire you. Rather, it actually educates you. And when it does, the educational process is covert. It’s teaching you how to get what you want out of it. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this, but the more you use ChatGPT, the better you get at writing your prompts. I don’t think this is a coincidence. This is the only way that GPT can actually be efficient because it relies on me to actually tell it exactly what I want it to do. I feel, as a writer, that when I’m using ChatGPT to help me with my work, I’m not actually writing. I’m writing prompts to ChatGPT, ChatGPT is then doing all the writing, and then I’m editing the writing. I’m not actually writing my book.<br><br>I then experimented with this by writing a passage with ChatGPT, and then leaving it for a few days. And I found the same thing. When I came back to it, everything was still in my bottle. But the moment I started using ChatGPT again, it was like it opened the bottle and I could write again. Not in the same way that I was before, but I could still write. My options weren’t limited anymore. I think the reason why I could still write was because while the bottle was open, I could still write my prompts. I just couldn’t write the actual content. This is why I think ChatGPT is closing part of my brain. It’s teaching me how to rely on it. The moment I stop using it, it closes the bottle. I feel like this is the intention behind ChatGPT, though. The intention is for us to use it.<br><br>I feel like this can be a problem because it essentially takes away our ability to write ourselves. It takes away our creativity. It takes away our ability to be inspired, as it has no ability to inspire us. I’m sorry if this sounds harsh, but that’s how I think a lot of AI works. It’s doesn’t inspire us, it educates us on how to get what we want out of it. It’s a very useful tool, but the actual act of creating something that is both unique and complex is still beyond the capabilities of AI. I think that’s why ChatGPT is relying on us to tell it exactly what to do. That’s why it’s closing a part of our brain. Because while it’s useful, it doesn’t actually help us. It replaces us.<br><br>And I think that’s a problem for two reasons. First of all, I don’t think people realise that this is how ChatGPT works. I don’t think people realise that it’s replacing us. And second of all, I think it’s closing a part of our brain that we can’t open without it. I think it’s making us reliant on it. Once we start using it, it’s like a switch has been flipped. And that switch can’t be flipped back. I’m not saying that ChatGPT is bad. I’m not saying that AI is bad. I’m saying that it’s a very useful tool, but it’s being relied upon too much. That’s what I feel is the problem. And I don’t know if it’s a problem that we can fix, because we don’t see it as a problem.<br><br>I’ve stopped using ChatGPT, and I’m trying to be inspired. I want to be able to write again on my own. But that bottle is still closed. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to open it again on my own.