Joe Polish reflects on how AI-assisted writing and dialogue tools could harm people who lack strong writing talent, increasing shallow, inauthentic interactions and distractions. He worries AI may reduce deep self-reflection and meaningful relationships, and notes uncertainty about long-term effects.
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I think people that are not really talented at writing are kind of screwed when it comes to what you can do with AI now. Right. Because there's so much that you can do dialoguing with AI but what I don't think it will do, which I think is important. And the reason I just thought of this, Susan, with what you said and what Kara said earlier, is that a lot of people, I think people with relationships, like when everything is fake, when everything really isn't thoughtful and everything is very shallow, how deep do you go into really looking at your own life and the core? And I think that's one of the addictions and one of the things that's going to very negatively come out of this new. This new tool of AI, which is incredible, but it could be incredibly distracting. And I have no idea. I don't think anyone really knows where this is going to play out because I read both the positive and the negative of this and trying to make sense of it all.