Some people say they don’t like AI because it “does the thing” for them. Cool. So does your washing machine.
In most of these cases, “the thing” they are referring to is writing.
“We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.” - Daniel Kahneman
Yet, these same people are okay with:
“The truth is that we all like to think of ourselves as rational, but we are all creatures of emotion, continually misinterpreting the world.” - Robert Greene
Why are these things “acceptable” but not something like a ChatGPT?
I bring this up not from a place of debate, but to point out the interesting ways we each see the world and how there are often biases attached to those viewpoints.
“When we insist that our vision be accepted, completely, without alteration, we’ve already compromised….Mostly though, we’ve compromised on who can contribute to our choices and make it better.” - Seth Godin
So before going off on a rant about something (clearly not what I’m doing here), why not take the time to stop and look at it from multiple perspectives? A process like the 6 Thinking Hats is a great way to do that.
(obviously, there is way more to Edward de Bono’s framework than this, but thought I would give you the SETR (short enough to read) version so that you may actually consider using it).
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius