The Age of Outsourced Thinking
We are witnessing the transition where we used to ask our questions to ourselves, our loved ones and sometimes google. This time lapse has brought us to asking questions from Chat GPT. A lot of people are trying and saying that we should make AI free content but I feel we can’t really stop the inevitable.
While reading these classics, I complain and lament how I want to born in the age with no AI. And using Chat GPT aiming for perfection doesn’t guarantee the best content. Because when I read classics simply blows my mind, it lightens up something in me and there is some comfort.
I realise how everything is conspired to make us machines who are incapable of thinking. We are shielded from critically analysing things. We need not think about why some friend hurt us. We turn to AI or our echo chambers who will never tell us where we wronged because it is not designed to do so. The very idea that we shun everybody who disagrees is ridiculous. Sit with people, disagree with people, put forth your opinions how you feel about a particular politician and have the courage to listen against your opinions. Let your beliefs be shaken and sit with your thoughts!!!!!!
This is what AI is stopping us from the uncomfortable pondering and brooding about opinions.
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George Orwell wrote that 1984 classic, Sylvia Plath wrote that fig analogy in Bell Jar, Aristotle wrote Poetics and Plato The Republic because they observed, sat and think over things. Thinking is humane. Don’t postpone it.
Along with this, there is a rise in the instant gratification of almost everything. We want to read 5 books a month because some you tuber came up with the books haul claiming to read those many books. Read one but sit with it , think about what the writer said on page 29 for 29 times while doing the dishes, doing the laundry and write about it. Let that thing sink it you, question that or disagree with that.
If you don’t create content and you are always at the consumer’s end. Then you are missing the fact that how we are being treated as customers and they are trying strategies like animated content and whatnot. As somebody who writes, writing for Instagram audience feels awful, I hate the idea of “creating” poems.
I write when words want to come out and my heart can’t take it anymore not because I want to build an audience for that piece of poetry. Writing for a certain a social media platform feels like that kid who is embarrassed because now the uninterested guests are at home and your parents want that shy and introvert child to entertain them.
On the other hand on Substack I get to decide the form of the content long or short or the times I want to post here. I read the other day on Substack how that particular writer was complaining about the people who are planning their career like 2015. Everyday my you tube has one recommendation of how people are losing their jobs due to AI. Were those people planning like it was 2015? White collar jobs in US?
Let’s just accept the fact that this very forced or not integration of AI into our lives and poetry (and who knows our books as well) is going to be there in our lives. At least I have accepted. I am not scared of AI taking over the world or human existence. As it’s inevitable so why fear it?
