Discussion
Serious question: If you willingly use generative "AI", do you believe you're immune to or sufficiently protected from de-skilling, cognitive decline, and what's commonly known as "AI psychosis"?
If yes: What makes you believe that? How are you special?
If no: Why do you still use it, given that you're aware of the risks to your cognition? Do you just accept it?
@aesthr The risks to my employment rank higher.
@aesthr (I guess that's not really "willingly". But I do employ cognitive prophylaxis at work to avoid skill rot and psychosis.)
@afeinman if you want to share, what are those prophylactic things you do specifically?
@aesthr I could write a book.
(Actually, I did, but we're waiting on the cover art, and it's a novel, not a list of prescriptions.)
Tl;dr: agency, locus of control, and consent. Will think about how to extricate the intertwingling of the actual presentation I have made on this from $work.
@aesthr I think I'm safe(ish) from AI psychosis, but definitely suffer from de-skilling and cognitive decline and general I-hate-my-job-now-ness. I use it exclusively at work because I'm forced to do it. I don't think I'm special, but I hope that knowing the basics of how AI works, and using it exclusively on my job and completely avoiding it elsewhere helps me not to suffer from that specific problem.
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@aesthr de-skilling no, It's probably just a matter of lazyness and speed.
I also know that I should spend less time on social media and more reading books or exercising against cognitive decline, but that too is hard.
AI psychosis: not really worried. I am fully aware that LLMs do not think in a traditional sense of the word. It's a powerful, though potentially harmful to society, tool, nothing more.