This is the English version of my previous post because it was too large for my low HP amount:
Many, many years ago, when humans needed to make a calculation, they relied on their fingers, small stones, and even tiny bones to solve it. Technology gradually advanced until paper appeared. Humans learned to write and represent numbers—a method we still use today.
I want to pause at an invention that marked a before and after in the exact sciences: the calculator. This invention revolutionized everything related to numbers, sped up processes that once took long hours, and saved a lot of wood, since calculations stopped being handwritten and moved into the digital world. Everything seemed positive, but something happened: little by little, humans stopped reasoning through calculations on their own, and this object became so essential that many people today are unable to perform a simple decimal division by themselves.
Yes, we began to stop calculating, and we let machines calculate for us.
Now, much later, something appeared that—although now quite common in our lives—still feels futuristic or even “magical” when we use it. AIs. They arrived and revolutionized practically every corner of life: music, photography, digital art, literature, medicine—everything. To such an extent that, considering how little time they’ve been on the market, they have advanced at such a blazing speed that if we compare an AI result from two years ago with one from today, the contrast is so striking it’s almost frightening when we think about what’s coming in the next few years.
Before, if we wanted an image for a wallpaper, we usually went to Pinterest to find one that represented us. Now it’s just a matter of crafting a simple prompt and we have it in seconds, shaped exactly to what we want. Are there still details to polish? Of course. But as I said before, the development of these tools is advancing at a hurricane-like pace.
I’ve noticed, while browsing social media, that many posts (I’d rather not say most) are generated by AI. Many replies in discussions—you read them and they were generated by ChatGPT, Copilot, or others. Where’s the problem? Yes, we are stopping THINKING, and AI is thinking for us.
It even scares me to imagine what the internet might become in the near future. In fact, there is the “dead internet theory”¹, which explains the drastic and explosive appearance of new websites after ChatGPT was released to the public. It is estimated that by 2026, 90% of internet content will be generated by AI.
Based on my own browsing experience, I’ve noticed that many content creators rely on these tools to generate their videos. But if we analyze the issue more deeply, we see the absence of creativity and human thought behind it. It’s evident that the content created was something like:
“Hello ChatGPT, find articles about attention‑grabbing curiosities to make a video and generate a script for it that lasts 5 minutes.”
And that’s it. The AI responds, the creator doesn’t question anything (because an AI said it), they publish it, their followers see it and don’t question anything (because they saw it on the internet), and little by little the flame of thought fades.
Not to mention the amount of fake news circulating with false images that look completely real, like the uproar caused by the images of the Pope playing basketball, just to name an example. When these tools evolve even further, we will have no basis for trusting anything we see online, and once we reach that point, we will question everything.
I don’t want this post to be interpreted as if I’m anti‑AI or demonizing it by arguing only against it, because I recognize it has been one of humanity’s greatest inventions. It came to make our lives easier—but that’s exactly what worries me the most: that it might make them too easy.
Maybe I’m wrong, but the facts show that soon it will be impossible to distinguish whether a post was generated by an AI or by a human. I only hope measures are taken, and that at least something as disastrous as what happened with the Gemini 3 Pro jailbreak² doesn’t happen again. I’ll leave the references below so you can see how far this can go.
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