We come from so many different perspectives. With all sorts of memories and all sorts of influences, different childhood toys, breakfasts, languages, parents’ record collections, high school crushes.
That knowledge one person has differs so drastically from that of another person, even their neighbor, even their best friend or spouse.
When we use AI, each search draws from the same knowledge base. What if we all had the exact same knowledge base as one another? That would be like using a very specific study guide for a test in school. The answers will come out pretty identical. You can certainly ask it to take on the persona of another, but that won’t be authentic. The best AI would have is an attempt at empathy, a study, not experience.
Aside from the very real environmental risks, and the rearranging of the white collar job market, we face another huge threat:
That of becoming boring.
We start to use AI for the answers to our questions, for ideas, for inspiration, and we run the risk of those ideas being so starkly similar to those that others bring forward. We trust AI at face value and we run the risk of lacking perspective. That hard-earned, uniquely human perspective.
In a culture that runs homogenous due to algorithms, this is one more step toward homogeneity, but not just in what we consume: in the work we produce.
So before you ask ChatGPT for ideas, think a little harder on your own. Take a walk outside, scroll Pinterest even! Look for a little more perspective that only you can produce.
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