Brain Rot： Total ChatGPT Dependency Already An Issue
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Summary
ChatGPT is down, but we don t panic. You're not alone. We are all over-reliant on this tool, and it's ruining our ability to think and remember things we used to do on our own.
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So to underline the point of dependency and brain rot, let's play a couple of minutes of a video I
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saw that is from a channel that's covering things like this all the time, how AI is being used,
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who's using it, what are the motivations, but here's just how people have already become totally
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dependent on it. Look at this. My AI is actually on my best friends list. If you're anything like
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me, you use ChatGPT for everything. ChatGPT is my counselor, my therapist, my best friend. It
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knows all my secrets. Story time on how I almost got kicked out of the University of Michigan my
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freshman year for using ChatGPT. Okay, so ChatGPT is down, but we do not panic. You're literally one
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AI agent away from making 10k a month. The most gut-wrenching feeling in the world is when the
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ChatGPT chat that you've been using for about six months starts referencing things that don't exist.
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It must be what it feels like to notice for the first time that a loved one has dementia or
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something. Everyone's talking about how AI is ruining YouTube, but I believe AI is ruining
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something much worse, our own ability to think. ChatGPT has went down several times this year,
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and every time it goes down, it truly exposes people who are over-reliant on the AI. People are
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genuinely losing their minds because they now can't get any of their work done, they can't cheat on
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their assignment, and apparently they can't even bake a cake. ChatGPT is down, and I don't know about
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anyone else, but I have come to the conclusion that I can't use my own brain anymore because, for
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example, right now I want to bake a cake, and normally I ask ChatGPT, how do you make a carrot
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cake? I can't simply Google something anymore, like I need a step-by-step breakdown from my best
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friend who is also a robot, and now it's like he's passed away. So that's me for the day, I'll go back
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to bed. If we as a society are already this dependent on ChatGPT and can't be bothered to
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Google something the moment the servers go down, we as a society are baked, and not in the fun way.
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Cookbooks, Google, I think even the flower bag has a recipe on it, or just call your grandmother,
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I'm sure she has a recipe, and she would love to hear from you. And of course, every time ChatGPT
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goes down, everybody goes to Reddit to let everybody else know what they already know is that the
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servers are down. The caption says, when ChatGPT tells you Australians don't need a visa to enter Chile,
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All right, so they're using this for everything, and that is the truth. Now, Grok, is this true?
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OpenAI, tell me about XYZ. Do you see how easy this is to manipulate people now?
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They're too lazy to just research and enter things in a browser and find sources on their own.
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Just have it come up for me real quick. I can't even Google... I can't even be bothered Googling
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I think even Googling is detrimental, because it stops you from actually trying to...
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Well, this is the next level. They're not even going to do that.
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Granted, if there's something that you do not know at all, yes, of course. But I'm saying like,
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oh, what was that song again, or that guy, or that movie, or that... No one is even attempting
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to use their memory anymore at all. And of course...
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That's my tagline. Do not Google it. Try to access it, because otherwise those pathways will not be used.
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No, it's horrible. But I'm just saying, you might have thought that this was something
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like five years down the line, or something like that. But I'm saying as this tool,
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it's already happening right now. The dependency, and it as an omnipotent,
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going back to the Jesus story, and how the pastors use this in sermons and stuff,
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eventually this will be their God. It will be their parent. It will be their overlord,
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and it will tell them whatever is true, and they will believe it, because they think it's objective,
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and they have no understanding of who's behind it.
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Even though it's still pulling from, yeah, internet sources, which sources, right?
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Well, exactly, right. And I mean, this is a little bit maybe misapplied,
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but it's like, still, you know, I've always brought this in. Like, who are the people
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programming this kind of thing, right? Where do they stand on things, and what's their opinion,
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and are they upholding, you know, subjective things? And of course they are. They will always
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do that, right? So in this Reuters piece, he was interviewed, and Sam Altman said,
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I am Jewish. I believe that anti-Semitism is a significant and growing problem in the world,
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and I see a lot of people in our industry sticking up for me, which I deeply appreciate.
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I see much less of that for Muslims. So he's doing the liberal Zionism, you know,
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Angelo's like, oh, my poor Muslims kind of thing. But I'm saying, you can't just think that OpenAI
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somehow is like an American company, and they stand up for American values, and it's OpenAI
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versus whatever China is doing or something. That doesn't even exist. You have to bring every piece
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of motivation of the people behind it into the equation. None of these experts have any clue
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