The Insensitive Imposter
“Virtual East India company colonizing brains?” “There is one Imposter among us.” “If COVID-19 was a pandemic, then the drop in humans’ thinking capacity could be CGPT-39 too!”
“Chat GPT, Gen-Z’s fame or a mug’s game?”
Introduction
Technically, sensing that one actually had to possess a brain to develop this software being secondary, why did easing an individual’s work make him rely on an artificial software beyond his self-actualisation?
Reason of naming it the Insensitive Imposter gives it immense appropriation because any event in that place will ultimately be insensitive unless and until heartfelt or mindful involvement of a person is present. And imposter, let us get into a step by step breakdown of this journey because it’s not just the game or the name, it is the impact.
Purpose
Taking its first step into the world of dependents, at San Francisco, it had the major purpose to serve people with “human-like conversations to complete tasks”. Well.., definitions are not meant to be taken seriously but we took it very seriously that even answers for miscellaneous questions were sorted by a bot.
People’s lives and Chatgpt
It is actually hilarious to look at pals naming the bot something or the other to refer to it when in need, highlighting that the ‘need’ is omnipresent once into the loop of the GPT. Like always, every coin has two sides and every existing topic has two as well, I belong to neither. Chat GPT has its own advantages too, it eases work, reduces time etc..
Situations where it can let you down
Let’s imagine in a hypothetical situation, in front of a panel of jury, when one has to answer questions that sound like Greek and Latin to him, he obviously cannot surf on any at that momentary turning point of his life. And why is he in that satiety to not be able to answer? Because such bots made him dependent on words not knowledge.
Things that it stops you from achieving
We have heard bitter truths that elders say, one of those is that “anything that you attain without difficulties are things whose worth you will never know”. It makes a lot of sense with our imposter. Knowledge is what one seeks, Answers are those that we yearn for, Learning things is a gift, Working by oneself and being independent is a pride when Chat GPT is that one weapon or medium that grabs all these immaterial values and happiness from all of us. Maybe, it sounds conventional and not convincing. After days pass, we will never be able to get back our critical thinking, however hard we try.
Impact
Observing people unable to complete tasks on their own and looking out for an artificial tool is deeply saddening. Creativity would probably become a meaningless word in ChatGPT’s definition within a few years. Whatever the worth of the information and timely responses that it gives may hold, it is only a mug’s game if one suffers from the disability of expressing himself. It feels like watching a group of people getting addicted to something new.
Instances
I can still look back to an incident when entrepreneurship students had to interview an entrepreneur and this purely intelligent mate had taken an interview of a completely virtual and fictional entrepreneur who’s dad was none other than our imposter. As a passionate writer, writing speeches for family and friends was always an obligation, but now I know I’ve been replaced. Gillian Flynn in her book ‘Gone Girl’ through Nick Dunne{Protagonist} rightly said, “… blame the internet, blame people who use the internet. I used to be a writer. Back when people read things on paper, back when anyone cared about what I thought”.
Business’s Influence
Business is everywhere, from water to oxygen, it hammers its presence firmly. Money does matter, but beyond individuality and harmony? That can be termed as a perception, as nobody can predict a foreseeable future, who knows if ‘the Jio strategy’ was used for ChatGPT – Once for all free, Once for open, PAY. I wouldn’t be surprised if half of people’s assets were sold for it.
Future in this path
On the other hand, one can also visualize getting terminated from IT because of ChatGPT or AI and asking solutions to the cause for getting out of it or going into an addiction-free camp to rescue himself from the imposter.
Conclusion
No wonder, it’s insensitive, it can be a hammer, it can be a nail, but at the end of the day nobody can replace the carpenter.
Any hammer or nail is of no use without the hand that strikes it into the wall. It would be better if people realize what they are consuming is not nutrition but just frugal. Making oneself independent of a tool will not just save him from losing his creativity and critical thinking but also create a change in the changing society on how to lift up one’s self-actualisation and esteem.
Closing Note
Anything that comes into existence shall not be an imposter that exists by virtue.
If breaking odds was never out of style, then let us all be changemakers.
~ S Keerthana Manasswini
