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AI is starting to undermine our trust in ourselves.

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turquoiseshell · 12/04/2026 18:59

Some people (how many I wonder?) are starting to use AI to write or to check everything for them. So their thoughts in emails and so on are being expressed by AI rather than directly by them. And AI is doing the research and then summarising it, saving people the time of doing their own online research - and we know that AI comes out with a biased view, due to what's been fed into it. And so on and so on. I see that on Mumsnet AI now suggests a "better" thread title than the one we've chosen for ourselves. Though it's refused to offer a thread title for this thread, which is ominous...

I attach an article about how easy it is to stop trusting yourself do to anything without the assistance of AI. And of course it's worse with children, who haven't even developed their communication skills yet.

Are any of you deliberately limiting your use of AI, and helping your children to do the same? Are our brains (what's left of them after reading social media all evening) going to rot as we hand over more and more tasks to AI, first because it's easier that way, then because we lose our confidence to do the tasks, and then because we're no longer capable of doing them?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/mindandbody/i-let-ai-into-my-life-and-then-i-started-to-doubt-my-own-intelligence/ar-AA1YxHT7?ocid=msedgntp&pc

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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/mindandbody/i-let-ai-into-my-life-and-then-i-started-to-doubt-my-own-intelligence/ar-AA1YxHT7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=

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FlorenceBlack · 12/04/2026 20:09

I’ve never used it, and I’ve considered coming off Mumsnet completely because I’m fed up of the AI-written posts.

TON618 · 12/04/2026 19:45

I think you make very good points. I limit my use to three things:
Copilot at work helps me as an Excel tutor. Because I'm crap at Excel.
I won't let it near the reports I'm paid to write.
I use it to solve simple problems like 'why do bricks turn white ' because I'm too lazy to trawl the internet for the answer.
I make cute images of my dog doing cool stuff.

BlooomUnleashed · 12/04/2026 19:02

I’ve unsubscribed from my paid version.

And watch Ed Zitron once a week when I waver. Cos I’d rather wean myself off before I get reliant than be forced to go cold turkey when the bubble pops and we have to pay what it actually costs to produce the answers/output we ask for.

deserthighway · 12/04/2026 19:01

I don't use it personally but i have noticed the big increase in mumsnetters who use it - its an improvement on a thread thats full of bad grammar and spelling though.

I guess if AI is better than something you can come up with yourself then you'll probably use it

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