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AI is turning you basic
AI is turning you basic
Be careful, or your Wild 'N Reckless could soon become Pralines 'N Cream
By Dr. Sandra Matz - C. Blaine Horton
Published September 26, 2025 6:30AM (EDT)
(Salon) As we have seen in recent months, there are many reasons to be nervous about the growth and impact of artificial intelligence. AI is polarizing, it can spread misinformation and there are many signs that it’s coming for our jobs.
These macro issues are worrisome, but there is a quiet and surprisingly more personal danger: AI makes us boring. Not just collectively, but individually.
Recent studies, including our own, have shown that when we use AI for guidance, our interests become more normative and less diverse. Our creative output becomes less unique. Even our selection of the “most important” scientists, athletes or historical figures becomes the same as everyone else’s.
AI turns the infinite diversity that makes humans special into statistically safe sameness. It strips away the parts of each individual’s identity that make us different and collapses our complexity into a unidimensional, static version of who we are and could be. .............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/26/ai-is-turning-you-basic/
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And don't bother with AI.
Often I learn more from rummaging (critically, which means 'sceptically until I understand the facts and logic for a position, and take time to verify a set of facts') than from what a reporter's preaching. Yes, I use that, because too often today's media preaches instead of trying to present what is factual. Sometimes the facts have a bias, sometimes the facts presented have a bias; the two don't always agree. If I wanted to go to church I'd attend services every Saturday, but if the sermons were political, either side, I'd opt out of that organization.
Still, my first take on the OP's subject line was that "AI is turning you caustic." Not sure that's not true. 