A friend I admire posted recently about how “obvious” it is when people use ChatGPT. The comments were predictable: I don’t use AI. I wrote my book myself. The subtext: using AI is lazy, fake, or somehow shameful.
The backlash is predictable. We’re scared of sameness, of machines replacing human creativity. I get that. None of us wants to live in a dystopia of synthetic thought. There’s skepticism, eye rolls, and even a sense of shame or defensiveness when someone admits they’ve used a tool...