Dear Prof, I heard a news that left me stucco: it seems that a class invited the chatgpt year dinner. It will be a joke, but it is significant of the times that our boys live.
Angela
The news is true: refers to a video on Tiktok in which a girl, during the evening, plays a cardboard on a chair of the restaurant with the chatgpt symbol.
The description? “The one who has always been for all of us”.
It is undoubtedly one funny joke: The childhood imaginary friend is back, but now he is a friend of everyone, without jealousies or reserves. What’s better?
However, he puts us in front of us important reflections. The carton that celebrates the IA as a study companion, Banco, Life, can also worry. It seems to tell us that the relationships of help, support and friendship are finding new ways: those of computer networks.
It is essential to make boys aware that, however useful technology, It must be known and managed with caution.
A recent study of the Mit It highlights that frequent use of chatbot can generate cognitive debtthat is, a reduction in autonomous learning skills and independent thought.
Other effects: drop in critical ability, creativity, risk of manipulation and possible decrease in learning skills.
From a sociological point of view, the anthropomorphized and sitting on a chair seems to say: “I’m one of you.” It is the sign of a cultural change in which technologies are real social appearances.
The sentence – “The one who has always been for all of us” – reveal one mild melancholy. Of a generation that often finds in technology what is missing in relationships: continuity, availability, listening.