Laziness is a slippery slope. I'm just thinking of the automatic spell checkers that I've been using since college. Far from improving my spelling, I often feel dependent on them. Nowadays I keep using translation tools to go back and forth between the languages I actually speak. While the final result is always a word or expression that I already know, before typing it in I could not come up with it myself. Now with Chat GPT (and lately DeepSeek), when I tell them to paraphrase something I wrote, it always ends up sounding much better. In fact, let's see how it paraphrases what I just wrote:

Laziness can lead to a gradual decline in skills. For instance, I’ve relied on automatic spell checkers since college, but instead of enhancing my spelling, I’ve become dependent on them. These days, I frequently use translation tools to switch between languages I already know. Although the output is always a word or phrase I’m familiar with, I often struggle to recall it on my own before typing it in. Similarly, with tools like ChatGPT (and more recently, DeepSeek), whenever I ask them to rephrase something I’ve written, the result always sounds significantly better. In fact, let’s see how it paraphrases this very text.