AI And Ozempic

One of the main reasons I started writing these blog posts is because writing just brings me joy and why not add some joy in life. Also though, I felt my writing muscle starting to atrophy. AI has really become a powerful tool for my writing needs and I’ve found that with the right prompts it truly does feel in my tone and voice and is often “good enough.”

I recently saw an article about the link between ozempic and muscle atrophy.

“studies showing up to 40% of lost lean mass can be muscle, leading to weaker metabolism, frailty, and increased injury risk; however, consistent strength training, adequate protein intake, and proper nutrition can significantly mitigate this loss”

It can be an amazing tool to jumpstart and sustain amazing change in your life. However, if not paired with healthy routines to mitigate the loss of “the good mass” it can just create other issues. It made a connection in my brain that AI/ChatGPT is a little like the ozempic of creativity (I have since seen a few people who have made this connection as well).

Pair this with a recent MIT study:

“Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.”

The old idiom of “Nothing in life is easy” can’t help but ring in my mind here. Let me be clear though, this is not really about “Is it the “right” thing to do?”

The question that I am asking to myself is, what are the consistent exercises I am going to partner with this amazing tool to make sure atrophy or other issues don't pop up. Writing more often is a great first start. How else do we work out that creative and critical thinking muscle though? I’ll be keeping an eye towards those things the more I integrate AI into my life.