And AI might be accelerating it.
For the last two years, I’ve used AI nearly every day.
It helped me write a book.
At times, it felt impressive—almost revolutionary. It helped me improve grammar, organize ideas, and think differently about creativity.
But somewhere along the way, my excitement slowly turned into frustration.
The more I used it, the more I started noticing something unsettling—not just about AI itself, but about the world around it.
Everything is becoming automated.
Everything is becoming disconnected.
And little by little, the world feels less human.
AI may very well be the fall of the human race—or at the least a huge step back in the wrong direction.
It’s definitely not the savor when it gives you three different answers, to three different questions.
Literally.
Try it for yourself.
It happens to me all the time.
Yes, it was useful with the grammar and punctuation. And the great ideas to make the chapters and design better.
But, when it came time to build the website, which I had done many times before, it was pretty much useless.
It kept sending me down rabbit hole after rabbit hole…
I’d spend days trying to figure out why—to realize—it had given me bad advice.
Wasting my time, over and over.
It was the same thing when I asked for advice with setting up Amazon publishing.
It would say do this, and I would question the advice, for it to say:
“Your right, I shouldn’t had told you that.”
After two years I know AI is very inconsistent with its answers.
I can open three different chat sessions and ask the same question, and AI will give me three totally different answers.
It happens nearly every time, depending on the question of course.
I know—some will say:
Well, you used the wrong AI app—that’s not for web design.
That’s because there is an app for everything.
By design, maybe?
Why do you think there is an app for everything? Maybe it’s for the subscription?
I think there will be a shift in society today. I think there has to be. And I think AI will be one of the main reasons.
Everyone can agree we are in strange times.
The economy is struggling. Health is on decline.
We can’t trust anyone. Not our government. Not politics. Not the news. And certainly not social media.
The whole world seems to be a mess, and our futures are uncertain.
Real jobs are on the decline.
Just yesterday, at Zaxby’s drive-thru I’m greeted by AI on the intercom.
Immediately I think, there is one less job.
Today, I wake up to errors with the You Need A Budget app. After twenty minutes of AI-generated responses, I finally say, screw it—I’ll fix it later.
It’s not worth it.
Customer service has disappeared. AI nonsense has replaced every aspect from the help-desk to the email to the phone.
No longer can you talk to a real agent without navigating through a web of automated frustration, and sometimes waiting patiently for hours, only to be left without any more than you started with.
It’s infuriating.
It’s ridiculous.
Society should be ashamed. We’ve let this world become automated. We have generations of young people that don’t know how to talk to one another.
It’s sad.
When I think about all these things, it’s hard to see a future that’s bright.
For me, it looks dim.
I try to stay positive, and I try to stay in great spirit, but things like this—they just can’t be overlooked.
They need to be addressed.
They have to be.
Or else, there might just be a huge step backwards.
