> A central part of every student’s retelling was that despite their AI use, they retained artistic control over their output and could exercise agency to think and improve for themselves. [...]
> The illusion of control that AI users have reliably shown interacts in an insidious way with their disempowerment. [...] AI does not even need to be superhuman. [...] All an AI needs to do is be passably good at a task and that may well be enough for people to volunteer their own replacement.
There's a fiction piece [0] which alludes to this kind of... maladaptive cybernetic relationship, and while its made a few rounds on HN, I think it's very relevant to what the author is concerned with here.
> The [magical advice-whispering] earring is always right. It does not always give the best advice possible in a situation. It will not necessarily make its wearer King, or help her solve the miseries of the world. But its advice is always better than what the wearer would have come up with on her own. It is not a taskmaster, telling you what to do in order to achieve some foreign goal.
> A central part of every student’s retelling was that despite their AI use, they retained artistic control over their output and could exercise agency to think and improve for themselves. [...]
> The illusion of control that AI users have reliably shown interacts in an insidious way with their disempowerment. [...] AI does not even need to be superhuman. [...] All an AI needs to do is be passably good at a task and that may well be enough for people to volunteer their own replacement.
There's a fiction piece [0] which alludes to this kind of... maladaptive cybernetic relationship, and while its made a few rounds on HN, I think it's very relevant to what the author is concerned with here.
> The [magical advice-whispering] earring is always right. It does not always give the best advice possible in a situation. It will not necessarily make its wearer King, or help her solve the miseries of the world. But its advice is always better than what the wearer would have come up with on her own. It is not a taskmaster, telling you what to do in order to achieve some foreign goal.
[0] "The Whispering Earring" - Mirror: https://croissanthology.com/earring