Your Brain On AI: Artificial Intelligence Is Impacting Your Memory
You can't scroll through YouTube these days without being bombarded by thumbnails screaming about AI.
“Get Rich With AI.” “AI Made Me a Millionaire This Year.”
It's everywhere. And the promises? Overblown.
But beneath all the hype, we need to ask a serious question:
What Are These Creators Really Promoting?
Are they genuinely trying to teach people how to build something meaningful using tools like Chat-GPT?
Or are they pushing the idea that AI should replace your brain, your effort, and your need to learn real skills?
In more than 90% of cases—it's the latter. And that’s where I draw the line.
When AI Is Misused for Profit
It’s become all too common: a YouTuber sits in front of a camera claiming they’re going to earn a full-time income in just six months. How?
By taking a client’s request, pasting it into Chat-GPT, waiting five minutes, and sending it back like they wrote it themselves.
This isn’t just misleading—it’s the exact opposite of how language models should be used.
The Long-Term Cost of Mental Laziness
Here’s what genuinely worries me: the next generation of AI users.
Technology is accelerating, but it’s also making us lazier. And quietly, it's taking a toll on our memory and thinking skills.
Think about it—
When was the last time you manually dialed your mother’s number?
Can you even remember your best friend’s phone number without looking?
If you can, good. If not, you're already relying on tech for something your brain used to handle easily.
Skill Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against “Generate”
Now we’re watching skilled professionals—people with real degrees in English, Communications, and Marketing—get forced to compete with AI-generated fluff and the people passing it off as original work.
People who can barely write a coherent sentence are now selling themselves as “copywriters,” because they’ve learned how to click "generate."
It's frustrating.
It's insulting.
And it’s blurring the line between professional work and digital fraud.
The Warning No One Wants to Hear
This isn’t just about freelancing, or job markets, or competition.
This is about your mind.
Use it.
Read. Write. Learn. Speak.
Because if you stop doing those things—if you let AI do all the thinking, writing, and expressing—you’ll slowly lose your ability to:
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Think
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Memorize
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Learn
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Communicate
That’s the real danger.
AI Is Powerful—but It’s Not You
Let me reiterate: AI isn’t the enemy. I use Chat-GPT myself.
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I use it to research topics.
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I use it to help refine things I’ve already written.
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It saves time and offers useful insights.
But I don’t let it write for me.
Because a tool is not a brain.
And when people rely on AI to churn out content and pass it off as their own, it’s not clever—it’s embarrassing.
Or at least, it should be.
The Bottom Line
If you care about the future of creativity, have a sense of integrity, and value critical thinking—then treat AI like the tool it is.
Use it wisely.
Don’t hand over the wheel.
Because once you stop using your brain…
you’ll forget how.
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