The process they described is not much different from gluing together ideas from studies in university (when I was studying for an arts degree).

I think its on the person to realize whether A.I. is becoming a crutch.

We will just have to stand on the shoulders of homogenous giants.

I've felt the same way about our searches and Google Autocomplete. I find myself only search for stuff that Google Autocomplete will recognize.

This headline is infuriating and the content is just a report on that one study that's been making the rounds on Hacker News all week.

AI chat bots enable passive consumption. Passive consumption homogenizes thought. It's not the only technology to do this.

I suspect that The New Yorker, and similar outlets, will stop caring when it becomes financially and socially advantageous to do so.

A culture that is ambivalent or disinterested in providing practical solutions to this problem is the greater issue.

It's just the MIT study again, isn't it? Cool study.

We should wait for the peer reviews before digging too much into it though. These are, after all, preliminary results.

In some narrow sense, this headline reminds me of this Alex Murrell blog post from 2023 called "The Age of Average": https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average (HN discussion from that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35355703). Covers the strange phenomenon of cultural homogenization, with all designs (cars, buildings, brand logos, websites, etc) reverting to a mean. In some sense, I'm not surprised now that AI (or 'thought' more generally) is doing the same.

I mean, when I was young I would often think in terms of whatever philosopher I was currently reading. Brains are plastic AF and adopt very quickly. Just keep your inputs more diverse than literally just chatgpt and you will be fine.

This makes it sound like people are original and profound. No. 99% of day to day is just repetition. Critical thinking is innate and rare. This is why religion is such a successful social form. This is also why governments like North Korea exist. 99% live brain-dead lives doing uninspiring work…and they are happy to do it. Might also be the way we are designed and wired for survival.

the comments on this post are pretty diverse.

In other news, you can go outside. Roll around in some grass. Explore. Sniff something. Who cares. There’s an infinity of places and beings and things and they’re all unique, and it’s good.