Real Life

So, I was watching this random video by Arpit Bala which got me thinking;

I often find myself and people around me, using AI a lot. Literally a lot, but here is a thought;

Whats happening?

More and more people have started to outsource so much stuff to AI. for eg.

• emotions (sharing emotions and seeking validation),
• personality (e.g, asking AI how to respond to texts),
• introspections (lacking original thoughts and ideas, and asking AI instead all the time)
• social life (instead of meaningful real-life interactions),
• personal life (journal/overshare personal life),
• friendships (making AI their friend), etc.

Wont it lead to a personality deficiency crisis in the near future? 💀 

for example, Personally, I can already observe my own grammar skills getting deteriorated because i use AI so damn much all the time for making notes, improving/checking grammar etc.

what makes us human? 

things which make us human: the personality, and the emotions.
If we outsource it, what's left?

All these big capitalist organizations have been so successful in converting humans into mere puppets with herd mentality. Take for example, social media:

Social media was supposed to be a social interaction platform, for the people to better integrate with each other. Ironically that is a thing of the past now.

All that is left is when someone hears of social media, all they can think of is "reels" and "posting pictures" or to follow influencers, get news and updates. what does that mean?

Social media is NOT SOCIAL anymore. its not about the people anymore.

Step 1: We lost our social integration, real life relationships (by social media).

Step 2: We are on the path to losing our personalities and the capability to even form social relationships in the first place (by outsourcing our emotions and personality to AI)

We are getting reduced to mere puppet consumers with no personalities, no real relationships, and most of all no life LOL

Then should we NOT USE AI?

No, absolutely not, you MUST USE AI, but for specific purposes.

• Speed up tasks
• Save time by outsourcing repetitive non-productive tasks
• Generate and brainstorm new ideas
• Create and finish unnecessary projects and presentations in school/work
• Assistance while studying, like making notes, summarizing etc
• Improve your grammar, language skills
• Dealing with Excel sheets, 
• Etc.

Thumb-rule:

You should use AI to save your time.

You should AI for work and studies.

AI should be used for everything which can save your time, especially repetitive tasks, as long as it is not related to your personal, emotional and social life

and the time saved with AI should be used to improve one's social, emotional, personal, REAL LIFE.

Idea:

Keep your personal life, relationships, and social life to itself, to its originality. Real life should be preserved to prevent the personality deficiency crisis. Preserved from the AI and Social Media. 

I personally feel, IF I am posting my personal life online, I am giving other people/ AI the privilege to comment on it, i.e. I am giving them authority over my own personal life even though selective, but I still am. SO WHY? they are no professionals, no matter how good a prompt you write, or how good an online friend you make, it cannot replace a Real life person. 

Seeking emotional support and validation from social media has been a norm now but AI now?!!

 It's absolutely unhealthy, and for a fact, I know people use it JUST for this kinda stuff, share and validate personal, emotional, social life, get advice from AI models and flaunt it online as well 💀. "I wish ChatGPT was a real person." thats messed up. 

The only reason for me to ever write these blogs was because I wanted the "social" part back from social media. By sharing my reflections to my future self, as well as the good friends like yourself who are reading this blog, I am grateful. thank you.