{"id":20789,"date":"2025-11-09T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/im-a-committed-introvert-but-no-ai-will-take-away-the-joy-i-get-from-other-people-emma-beddington\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:37:19","slug":"im-a-committed-introvert-but-no-ai-will-take-away-the-joy-i-get-from-other-people-emma-beddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/im-a-committed-introvert-but-no-ai-will-take-away-the-joy-i-get-from-other-people-emma-beddington\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a committed introvert \u2013 but no AI will take away the joy I get from other people | Emma Beddington"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it might be soothing to think you could replace social interactions like book clubs with ChatGPT, subcontracting human thought out to a bot will never bring happiness <\/p>\n

This is depressing: according to the Cut<\/a>, people are using AI to solve escape room puzzles and cheat at trivia nights. Surely, that is the definition of spoiling your own fun? \u201cLike going into a corn maze and just wanting a straight line to the end,\u201d says one TikToker quoted in the article. There\u2019s also an interview with a keen reader who uses ChatGPT as a book club replacement, scraping the internet and aggregating \u201cstimulating opinions and perspectives\u201d. All well and good (actually, no, it sounds bleak as hell) until he had a character\u2019s death spoilered in the fantasy epic he had been enjoying.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Substack seems to be clogging up with AI-generated essays. The nu-blogging platform is an earnestly artisanal space where writers craft their stuff; subcontracting that to a bot seems like the acme of pointlessness. Will Storr, who writes about storytelling, examines this boggling trend and the tells that give it away on his own Substack<\/a>, including a penchant for what he calls \u201cthe impersonal universal\u201d: sweeping statements that sound deep but aren\u2019t. There is, he says, \u201cA white-noise generality to its insights, an uncanny vagueness that makes the mind glaze over.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nWhile it might be soothing to think you could replace social interactions like book clubs with ChatGPT, subcontracting human thought out to a bot will never bring happiness
\nThis is depressing: according to the Cut, people are using AI to solve escape room puzzles and cheat at trivia nights. Surely, that is the definition of spoiling your own fun? \u201cLike going into a corn maze and just wanting a straight line to the end,\u201d says one TikToker quoted in the article. There\u2019s also an interview with a keen reader who uses ChatGPT as a book club replacement, scraping the internet and aggregating \u201cstimulating opinions and perspectives\u201d. All well and good (actually, no, it sounds bleak as hell) until he had a character\u2019s death spoilered in the fantasy epic he had been enjoying.
\nMeanwhile, Substack seems to be clogging up with AI-generated essays. The nu-blogging platform is an earnestly artisanal space where writers craft their stuff; subcontracting that to a bot seems like the acme of pointlessness. Will Storr, who writes about storytelling, examines this boggling trend and the tells that give it away on his own Substack, including a penchant for what he calls \u201cthe impersonal universal\u201d: sweeping statements that sound deep but aren\u2019t. There is, he says, \u201cA white-noise generality to its insights, an uncanny vagueness that makes the mind glaze over.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it might be soothing to think you could replace social interactions like book clubs with ChatGPT, subcontracting human thought out to a bot will never bring happiness This is depressing: according to the Cut, people are using AI to solve escape room puzzles and cheat at trivia nights. Surely, that is the definition of …<\/p>\n

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