Most people aren’t using AI the wrong way. They’re using it in perfect alignment with how little thinking they were willing to do before. AI didn’t lower the bar. It revealed where it already was.
intellectual laziness
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AI hasn’t made people stop thinking. It’s made it easier to stop pretending they were thinking in the first place. When answers sound finished, curiosity quietly exits the room.
Original thought didn’t disappear when AI arrived. It had already been sidelined by systems that rewarded speed, familiarity, and confidence over thinking. AI didn’t kill originality. It exposed how optional we had already made it.