ChatGPT prose is NAUSEATING to read
Lifeless. Insipid. Sterile. Void.
What I have noticed throughout my time browsing this app is people's astonishing readiness to defer to language models such as ChatGPT for the simplest task of writing a post; it's become littered throughout this app, and once you encounter it enough times, it really begins to stand out, and not in a good way, either—call it pattern recognition, if you will. If you've been on here for long enough then I'm sure you'll already know what I am referring to; the abrupt cadence, the terse phrasing, the obnoxiously profuse indenting, and WORST OF ALL, that GOD-AWFUL PHRASE:
"it's not X, it's Y."
...and other such variations. SOUND FAMILIAR ?!?!?!?!?! I'M SURE AS HELL IT DOES !!! The worst part about this nearly pathological reliance on ChatGPT is its evident deficiencies in writing, and, by extension, any other sort of creative work. Each time I read it, I fail to see anything more than words vomited on a page, it's become repetitive to the point of being outright agitating—it is a veritable mutilation of the English language. We must understand that it is a machine whose chief function it is to rehash pre-existing data, therefore, I am willing to concede its merits in being able to efficiently gather and organize information, which makes it a potent instrument in facilitating research and other learning processes, but it should not, in my estimation, be employed for any purposes beyond that, by virtue of the simple observation that generating anything of value on its own is beyond its capacity. Anyone who is so averse to writing to resort to means such as this to convey their own thoughts is horribly ignorant of the power of language. It is no wonder, however, when we account for the fact that this is apart of the growing tendency of people, owing to the vast array of technology that is available today, to outsource their own cognitive resources.
STOP. USING. CHATGPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LEARN TO WRITE!