Artificial Intelligence is "thinking" for us?
Note: This blog post is only meant to be a discussion about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and LLMs and not to pass any judgment on people who do use AI. This post is written to encourage conversation around the effects of passively using A.I. on people and not to diagnose or provide clinical advice about people's psychological health. In the last seven days, many of us may have gone to the internet, opened a social media app or specifically shopped online, and, without even trying, we may have used AI in some capacity. That is how pervasive these Large Language Models (LLMs) have become, and with that degree of presence, it is pertinent to question – “How do LLM-based AI models affect us?” The polarity of the discourse about using A.I .- with one group touting it as an omnipotent being which would replace people in almost all (if not all) fields of work and the other resorting to shaming people who use it- has made it difficult to have nuanced conversations about it. But that ma...