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AI has improved a lot, but there are still some things it’s surprisingly bad at.

For me, one of the biggest issues is that AI can give a completely wrong answer while sounding very confident.

What’s one thing you think AI still does badly?

Is it reasoning, coding, creativity, understanding context, giving accurate information, or something else?

And do you think this is something AI will eventually solve, or is it a fundamental limitation?

Today, I met up with a friend. We’re in the same class and we’re both working on an individual report for a Psychology course.

I asked if she had finished hers yet, and she said she’d already had AI write it for her. Same here. I had AI write mine too. We’re students, what do you expect lol.

Basically, what we do is give AI our ideas, the things we want to talk about, and then let it turn those ideas into something longer and more complete.

But while we were talking about it, my friend suddenly said something that really stuck with me.

She said that if she wrote the whole thing herself, her writing style probably wouldn’t be that different from AI’s anyway.

And honestly… that made me think.

It’s like, even if she rewrites something or writes it from scratch, she’s already been influenced by the way AI writes. Everything starts to feel cleaner and more structured. Sentences need to be logical. Ideas need to follow some kind of cause-and-effect relationship or comparison. And somehow, that natural voice you originally had starts to disappear.

Then I realized… she’s actually not wrong.

It’s kind of similar to what people always talk about when they mention critical thinking when working with AI, just from a slightly different angle.

The more frequently we use AI, the more we seem to absorb the way it communicates. We start treating AI-generated writing as the default standard (unless it’s obviously terrible), and slowly get used to these very polished, structured, sometimes rigid ways of expressing things.

And to be clear, I don’t think AI writing is necessarily bad.

But I keep wondering what happens if everything starts being written in the same way?

You write something → ask AI to word it differently → you asks AI to rewrite that version again.

Eventually, everything starts feeling formulaic.

And maybe the weirdest part is that when you read a story or an essay, the feeling slowly changes from “I’ve read this story before” to “I feel like I’ve seen this way of writing somewhere before.”

So does that mean our sense of authenticity and individuality starts to disappear?