I've marveled lately at the active surrendering of cognition to AI that I've witnessed. I watched a guy at work use ChatGPT to draft a four-sentence letter for a customer. I said "that's ridiculous, man" and he said "it just helps me sound better" which didn't make it less ridiculous to me. He's fully capable of drafting that letter on his own in just a couple minutes if he wanted to. It would have sounded perfectly fine. I've seen him perform similar tasks, and I'm 100% certain he could have done it. But instead, he let AI do it for him because it was faster and easier. There wasn't any rush. He just didn't want to do the thinking. The same guy was paying for a monthly subscription to ChatGPT for a while (canceled it now, though), and has used it to tell him if his outfit looked good. 'Cause who cares what he thinks of his outfit, right? Better get AI to give him an "opinion" so he knows he doesn't look like a fool. It genuinely blows my mind. I don't care what another person thinks…
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