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submitted 14 hours ago by Naive@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

I am a Gen Z university student. The ChatGPT got boom when I was in 12th grade and I have been using ChatGPT, Gemini and Deepseek since then. I am starting to notice that now I cannot do searching anymore. I literally cannot do anything on my own like coding, learning something, fact checking, doing my assignments. I even become so reliant on it that I sometime even ask it what food should I eat, what exercises I should do. Sometimes, I "talk" with ChatGPT more than real human beings, maybe cuz I somehow end up having a bad experience or not so fulfilling experience with people. I have to use AI again and again for the same question, e.g., I asked a question today, I got the answer. If I encountered that question later again, I would not know the answer and have to go to AI for solution. What to do now? How to get out of this dependence on AI?

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[-] searabbit@piefed.social 4 points 12 hours ago

I think you outlined a couple of different problems, which requires different solutions.

First, the reliance on it for assignments. How are you grades? Is AI helping you learn enough to do well or no? I think AI can be useful to explain things in a different way from your professor, but if you're using it to basically do the work for you, your grades will likely reflect that you're not retaining anything. You need to learn how to learn if you haven't.

Second, relying on it for food and exercise advice. Are you asking it for specific recipes and targeted exercises or are you literally asking "what should I eat for dinner?" What I'm trying to get at is whether this is a matter of convenience or codependence. It's normal to be inexperience and unsure at this age, so if you're just using it to make up for your lack of experience, just cut the middle man out and look at recipes/workout plans directly and be curious about experimenting. However, if you feel insecure without AI deciding for you, you do need to just cut it out and sit with the discomfort of deciding for yourself.

Third, "talking" with it more than human beings. This is by far the most risky use of AI for your own well-being. If you have the option to do in-person therapy, I would start there. Since you're in school, try studying in public places like the park, the library, student center, common areas in your dorm or major, etc. Make yourself available to spontaneous human interactions and they are more likely to happen. Also talk to your friends more and more often if you have some.

Lastly, on having to re-ask the same question multiple times a day. That worries me. Are you sleeping and eating well? Do you also experience brain fog? Make sure you're ok physically first. Then, work out your brain like a muscle. When the same question pops into your head the second time, write down what you think the answer is first before googling it, even if it takes you a couple of minutes. You need to practice recall or your brain will be happy to offload information storage onto AI.

I think you're experiencing very normal challenges for your age, but with the added unknown of how AI helps/hurts humans at this stage, so don't be too hard or punishing on yourself! I don't think it's helpful to equate AI to a hard drug that you have to quit cold turkey because you don't seem to me like you have AI psychosis or at risk for it. So take a deep breath and just take it one step at a time <3

[-] Naive@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

My grades are average. These days, even teachers use AI to create exams. In July, I have to give an exam of a subject where the teacher was admitting it without any shame that I gave all syllabus content to Claude and ChatGPT to generate questions based on current AI and tech news. I am asking it for specific recipes, targeted exercises. Sometimes, I even go to extremes of taking life advices from AI that what to do I am highly depressed or I have faced this situation what should I do or what books should I read if I want this or how should I live my life based on my current goals. I experience brain fog (especially when I fast (my parents' religion have this fasting thing for a month and I have to do that too for my own reasons)). I experienced it more cuz I was doing some "stupid stuff" with my body (luckily stopped doing that thing to my body).

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