Subj : Re: Writing with LLMs
To   : Bob Worm
From : Dmxrob
Date : Thu Sep 18 2025 09:21 pm

BY: Bob Worm (21:1/205)
On Wednesday,September 17, 2025 at 07:23 AM, Bob Worm (21:1/205) wrote:


BW> Hi, Rob.

Hey Bob!

BW> It worries me how much I see people depending on ChatGPT - people in
BW> work, people I sit next to on the train, university professors... I feel
BW> like my brain is rusting up enough from age without speeding it up by
BW> outsourcing my thought to a machine as well.

It worries me too.  And not because I think AI will "take over all the jobs" or any of that nonsense.  But exactly as you said, people are letting their brains rust.  It was bad enough to start with, but now people are getting to the point where they can't even solve basic problems or they don't know how to distiguish between right and wrong.

Then you have AI increasingly getting things wrong, injecting false information or hallucinating and it is a disaster.  There are fewer and fewer "smart people" left to solve the actual problems, and those who are using AI for every little thing don't know what to do when something goes wrong that they can't ask ChatGPT for help with -- and even when it does help, how do you know it's telling you the truth?

It's scary and I think it's going to make the brain drain problem in business much worse.  People who can actually THINK, REASON and SOLVE will be able to write their own paychecks.

-dmxrob


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