A short elegy for the Action of Thinking.
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temrisThis won’t be really cohesive. I’m just really angry at rich people, generative AI, and why the new generation feels like doing anything but actually using their minds to think. For once.
Ever since returning to being a more active person of society (i.e. attending university after years of a self-induced reclusive lifestyle), I’ve had many instances that reminded me of why I went away from everyone in the first place. Maybe it sounds high-nosed, like very much petty complaining. And mostly, it probably is, but this society and where it’s headed makes me lose all hope.
I’m so tired of generative AI.
I probably voiced this out loud many times, but day by day, the hatred I garner for it grows stronger. Because I have to share the classes with kids who think they’re outsmarting the teacher by using AI for literally everything. I have to hear teachers encourage the use of AI lest we stay behind in “scientific developments”. (Though, I think this is more of a conduct pushed by the deans to be more “modern” and “with the times”.) I have to hear people say I’ll be useless in just a few years.
Then you ask yourself, why am I working so hard?
Firstly though, I need you to understand where these people are coming from, why they are so nonchalant about this. Unlike US American schools, we don’t write essays a lot for classes like you do, most likely the ones we write for are only for Turkish class – or its high school equivalent, Turkish literature. But I think nowadays they must have completely stopped it, because I see them give their papers, all of them 17 or above, and you’d think they’d just arrived from elementary. How can you not have learned paper layouts and margins, paper layouts in your years of education?
Now at my university major, we have two or three classes where we have to use the littlest bits of creative thinking, and I’m not exaggerating it at all. It really is the bottom of the bottom; and even then, they still don’t want to do it SO MUCH that they detest even hearing about it.
So what do they do?
These little rich kids think they’re outsmarting the teachers, using AI for writing their dialogue. And my God, it was so freaking obvious it was AI that I wish the lecturer also picked up on it.
The homework was to create a dialogue, and these two idiots (and their two other friends actually did the same as a duo, and their dialogue was also similar) DIDN’T EVEN PREPARE FOR IT BEFOREHAND and read it through their paper. Would it really kill you to just TRY? TRY A LITTLE BIT.
I hated every single second of having to listen to the AI’s dialogue. So dread of any emotion other than what’s capitalistically pleasing: It’s happy, every line is affirmative, because anger, annoyance, it’s what advertisers don’t like – AI can’t do it!
I don’t remember it exactly, but it went something like this:
Then you ask yourself again:
What am I working so hard for?
What annoys me the most, is that these rich kids will be able to bag jobs more easily than me, or maybe I’ll stay jobless while they will be able to work at any place in any job they want. I don’t have the most glorious outward appearance. I don’t have the network their rich dads have. So I’ll be stuck, jobless, sad, and envious. I’ll probably die like that too.
Ever since returning to being a more active person of society (i.e. attending university after years of a self-induced reclusive lifestyle), I’ve had many instances that reminded me of why I went away from everyone in the first place. Maybe it sounds high-nosed, like very much petty complaining. And mostly, it probably is, but this society and where it’s headed makes me lose all hope.
I’m so tired of generative AI.
I probably voiced this out loud many times, but day by day, the hatred I garner for it grows stronger. Because I have to share the classes with kids who think they’re outsmarting the teacher by using AI for literally everything. I have to hear teachers encourage the use of AI lest we stay behind in “scientific developments”. (Though, I think this is more of a conduct pushed by the deans to be more “modern” and “with the times”.) I have to hear people say I’ll be useless in just a few years.
Then you ask yourself, why am I working so hard?
Firstly though, I need you to understand where these people are coming from, why they are so nonchalant about this. Unlike US American schools, we don’t write essays a lot for classes like you do, most likely the ones we write for are only for Turkish class – or its high school equivalent, Turkish literature. But I think nowadays they must have completely stopped it, because I see them give their papers, all of them 17 or above, and you’d think they’d just arrived from elementary. How can you not have learned paper layouts and margins, paper layouts in your years of education?
Now at my university major, we have two or three classes where we have to use the littlest bits of creative thinking, and I’m not exaggerating it at all. It really is the bottom of the bottom; and even then, they still don’t want to do it SO MUCH that they detest even hearing about it.
So what do they do?
These little rich kids think they’re outsmarting the teachers, using AI for writing their dialogue. And my God, it was so freaking obvious it was AI that I wish the lecturer also picked up on it.
The homework was to create a dialogue, and these two idiots (and their two other friends actually did the same as a duo, and their dialogue was also similar) DIDN’T EVEN PREPARE FOR IT BEFOREHAND and read it through their paper. Would it really kill you to just TRY? TRY A LITTLE BIT.
I hated every single second of having to listen to the AI’s dialogue. So dread of any emotion other than what’s capitalistically pleasing: It’s happy, every line is affirmative, because anger, annoyance, it’s what advertisers don’t like – AI can’t do it!
I don’t remember it exactly, but it went something like this:
A: Hey, I just moved here. What’s your name?
B: Hello, I’m also new. I’m B, what’s yours?
A: Oh, I’m A. So what’s it like here.
B: I think it’s quite nice. What do you like?
A: I’m into this, this and that. What about you?
B: How nice, I also like that. I also do this. You can do this in there, how about that?
A: Oh, that sounds nice. Do you also do this?
B: Yes, I do. Do you also…?
The lecturer said nothing, of course. She’s kind of an old-head, and that’s why she probably didn’t even notice that those other two (they’re kind of like a 4-friend group) did a NEARLY same dialogue (they literally just change the setting). So yeah, they passed, while me and my partner practiced our dialogue ahead – not to mention writing it took us like two days. (It’s just 3 minutes of speech, by the way, to paint the picture. That’s how much we cared for it, even if it’s the bottom of the bottom homework like I mentioned. And this is the third time we’ve been assigned this type of homework. The first time, we prepared for three consecutive days for a two minute speech.)B: Hello, I’m also new. I’m B, what’s yours?
A: Oh, I’m A. So what’s it like here.
B: I think it’s quite nice. What do you like?
A: I’m into this, this and that. What about you?
B: How nice, I also like that. I also do this. You can do this in there, how about that?
A: Oh, that sounds nice. Do you also do this?
B: Yes, I do. Do you also…?
Then you ask yourself again:
What am I working so hard for?
What annoys me the most, is that these rich kids will be able to bag jobs more easily than me, or maybe I’ll stay jobless while they will be able to work at any place in any job they want. I don’t have the most glorious outward appearance. I don’t have the network their rich dads have. So I’ll be stuck, jobless, sad, and envious. I’ll probably die like that too.
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Date: Saturday, 17 May 2025 12:43 pm (UTC)What I mentioned seeing was more of an AI-assisted program that apparently helps with finding out cancerous cells earlier, or something like that -- blaming my brain for forgetting exactly what it is right now. I don't think diagnosing real life humans is something they should do either. Honestly, the more they give AI life-altering decisions to make, the more against it I get.
But it is interesting how with programs like that, maybe even jobs that the majority deems "essential" could get "replaced by AI" after all.