By Genno Gabriel Rabaya
A human is capable of many things. But with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), the question arises: Will humans lose their sense of purpose and authenticity as AI tools increasingly take over tasks once grounded in human insight?
Being a mass communication student, my professors have instilled in me the core principles of being a journalist: truth, fairness, independence, justice, accountability, and of course, humanity.
As such, I strongly believe that it is crucial to retain humanity in everything we do. This entails both the empathy needed in writing a story and the humans behind these write-ups—even in conversations, arguments, and discourses online.
Beyond writing, the insight of a human is necessary. However, in a world with so much digital advancements, AI is not considered a threat but a mere tool. Indeed, AI and human insight may make a powerful team. Yet, when a piece is obviously constructed with an AI prompt alone, it completely becomes unconvincing, untrusted, and less respectable.
AI can only do so much, and fixing one’s moral compass is beyond the AI prompt generator’s capacity.
To put it bluntly, it takes no effort to just type a prompt into whatever AI platform and copy every word that shows up. When you don’t even take the time to read through the “points” you are making and immediately send it to wherever you deem necessary, then you lose credibility.
Furthermore, constantly copy-pasting these points that clearly lack any substance is a waste of time not only for you as a “writer” but for the readers that may stumble upon it as well.
What makes this worse is if you constantly use these hollow AI-generated statements to respond to EVERY comment or idea you don’t agree with just because.
It leads me to question how people who often engage in social media rants, armed with nothing but their short-sighted views and AI prompts, even have the time to do so.
Claiming to be an “intellectual” when you are merely a pretentious user of AI is an insult to every intellectual, thinker, and writer who has made great efforts in actually coming up with original thoughts and ideas. Splattering random bible verses won’t help your case either.
Perhaps the true “crisis of profound significance” lies in the reliance on completely using AI beyond just being tools for efficiency. This is evident when points being made are clearly not made by a human, rather, just a blabber of artificially-generated words that pretend to have any ounce of relevance.
It truly makes us question where this “profound significance” may be found when, in fact, not a single word had any significance at all.
