I’ll speak directly to the last question: if you use AI as a means to generate ‘creative’ output (see: ideas on various topics/themes stolen from other folks), improv will likely help with learning to think on your feet and confidence in expressing yourself with reference just to the electrical impulses in your own noggin.
But I don’t think that alone is sufficient to fix a truly ‘AI-rotted brain’, which I take to mean a mind that reaches for easy answers and shortcuts. That’s a bigger project, and there’s a lot of good comments here and on your other post in that vein.
I don’t know your IRL circumstances, but a project idea for you: take a walk around the place you live with a notepad. Write down every question you have about any old stuff that catches your fancy/strikes you as weird (probably a good idea to take pictures too). Try and find the answers to those questions without using AI - instead, talk to a librarian, send an email to your local historical society, etc. etc. Ask for resources about the topic in question. Bonus points if you take that info and make something creative with it - a poem, a short story about someone contemporary to the thing you’re curious about, one act play, interpretive dance, whatever.
Like this for you simply because, depending on where you live and what catches your fancy, there may not be that much info fed into an AI database, but there could totally be a book/collection in an archive/knowledgeable person who’d be happy to chat about it.
read a book, it turns out once schools forbade social media, or thier phones for the most part thier reading remarkablly improved. writing/ math is another matter.
if you are taking notes in school, dont do it with a laptop, its very distracting. Also AI tends to not be very useful info in that they dont gather it from reputable sources most of the time.
Another thought would be talking to people more. Ai emulates the edifice of human connection but doesnt have any depth or challenge- adding more social time would probably be helpful if you have folks you’d wanna spend the time with :)
If you dont, that might be a challenge worth taking on, social support is deeply important
I’d also say researching how people get over behavioral addictions would be helpful, as ai overusage feels like it has many addictive elements
Sending love, its hard to take the path you’re choosing but it’s worthwhile and I believe in you!
You’re absolutey right!
You’re doing great though, that’ll be 3 tokens, kthxplsbai!
Instead of asking an AI your next question, try “borrowing” a book from the “library” on the topic (serious). Honestly, this would also have been my answer five years ago, before ChatGPT, with regard to basic search engines, since I’m old enough to remember when the advice was to not trust everything you read on the Internet.
Post on no stupid questions instead of asking gpt. Like all AI - it can be replaced by asking a person a question
TLDR: People take longer to give you an answer than AI or a search engine, but they are way quicker at giving you the right one.
It’s way more efficient asking people. You get info from single discrete primary sources with real-world experience that you can interrogate, rather than a machine synthesizing an ‘average answer’ i.e mashing together a load of differing and conflicting info…
People are also better at updating your own question to make it more appropriate to the task at hand.
A public discussion also leaves the answer and context visible to others who are searching for solutions in future.
I’ve wasted a lot of time trying to use AI to find answers and advice, and online articles before that. 9 times out of 10 it just ends in confusion or the answers they give simply don’t work in my case. If I ask real people I pretty much always get the problem sorted eventually.
People are awesome.
What do you mean by improv?
Improv comedy and improv theatre
Advice might be dependent on what you use it for at the moment.
So what do you use it for at the moment?
Coming into summer is a great time to cut it out of your life, so off to a good start.
Or you could pivot to using it for useful things. I don’t think it’s useless, you can use it to learn programming and stuff.
How rotted are we talking?
Like, are you aware you asked this exact question a week ago?
Best of luck finding a way through.
Try a boardgame club or cafe. Or contribute to a FOSS project.
Started improv a few years ago. Very good for my mental health.
Are there any free online improv classes?
If you want to get hooked on something without screen time but still have a kick from it try war gaming or pen and paper rpg. It’ll put your brain to work and it’s exciting enough to keep you away from screens. Maybe paint some minis.
Best of luck.
Addendum: go cold turkey on the ai, big tech is not your friend and never will be.
What about board games?
Oh sure, those are neat too. Whatever tickles your brain. Sometimes I like to write expanded rules upon classic board games. Just for fun.
Like let’s say the amazing labyrinth=> you get to play the cards you collect as special powers.
A few months ago, there was a post about geting over ai addiction with improv. If that was you, and you are still using ai, improv isn’t the answer. Step one - delete your ai accounts.
How many times are you going to ask this same fucking question dude?
Maybe he doesn’t realize Lemmy has infinite tokens…
Personally, AI was the reason I couldn’t buy steam deck, so I just got really mad and stopped using it cold turkey… Amazing decision, been feeling great since… Still can’t get steam deck tho
Depends on what you’re using it for?
