I was born in the 90s, had the honour and fortune to grow with technology over the decades and genuinely enjoyed the ride.
I know this is not a hot take, but I fucking hate Chatgpt, not AI, but this specific tool.
As someone with a tendency to pick up on patterns, subtle or otherwise, once you learn how chatgpt reads, it becomes impossible to unsee it.
As a result, I can’t read a single piece of text without seeing the obvious signs. It’s not just the em-dash, it’s the starting with a short sentence, sounding unnecessarily profound, with a weird and hit miss attempt at getting deeper.
It’s in marketing, it’s on social media, it’s in intimate messages between friends and family.
I understand most people spew into the tool and ask it to summarise or clarify their thoughts but everyone is using the exact same basic prompts and writing has completely lost it’s in individuality. People are so afraid of grammatical or spelling errors, or coming across the wrong way, they let chatgpt do the talking for them.
It’s annoying and it’s sad. As a society it feels like we’re losing the ability to write. And this is coming from someone with English as their 3rd language, primary language and who hated writing in my younger years – not that I plan on writing more than this anytime soo either.
That’s it, I feel better now. Enjoy your day.