It's certainly a game changer when it comes to doing useless activities that have no real merit, such as writing job applications (seriously, if everyone's doing it, why would I waste time? The goal is to get the interview) or formulaic school reports that say very little in honesty about the student (teacher's lives are filled with enough bureaucracy that distracts from real education) or sifting through the google search results with tons of advertising (it's quicker to ask chat gpt what the best companion plant is for tomatoes than close all those ads and have to read personal stories before getting to the meat of what you want).
This is where AI is a damn useful tool, imo.
But critical thinking? No. Creativity? No.
Yes, our brains will rot - they've already found that's the case. Same with all that screen time. It's a no brainer, excuse the pun.
Besides, it's just repeating ourselves back at ourselves, an infinite loop of content created by humans used by Ai to write content to be published by humans to be used by AI to create content for humans to read to ... ugh, it's a mess.
I always appreciate a good pun! Yes, I am certainly open to the idea that AI can be useful in certain areas, but as you say ... the endless regurgitation of content that serves no real purpose is a source of continual annoyance for me. 😅 I do wonder whether the current AI craze is a fad or whether it will, in fact, take over many workplaces, as plenty of analysts say it will. I know this much: whenever I'm given the opportunity to use my own brain rather than AI, that's what I will always choose to do – even if what I come up with isn't completely smooth or perfect. I know I will feel better for having done so. Brain rot is absolutely a concern of mine...