🚉The Lazy Brain and the AI Mirror

The Lazy Brain and the AI Mirror

The human brain is wired to choose the easiest path.
It’s a survival mechanism, designed to conserve energy and protect us from unnecessary risk.

AI didn’t create this tendency; it magnifies it.

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how this shows up in my own work. I rely on AI every day: grammar checks, proofreading, and brainstorming. It helps me go faster, but it doesn’t replace me.

When you treat AI as a ghostwriter, you risk losing your voice.
When you treat it as an assistant, it becomes the most productive teammate you’ve ever had.

This idea came to life for me while reading this article. Several of his points really stuck with me, and I wanted to share my thoughts,

Not as a critique, but as a way to keep the conversation going.

1. Highly Structured and Repetitive Phrasing

Humans naturally fall into this trap.
In marketing, I see it constantly: brands copying competitors, following the same formula, hoping for similar results.

AI often amplifies sameness.
It doesn’t create repetition. It reflects what we feed it.

2. Genericism

Many people misunderstand what AI is for.
It’s not your ghostwriter.
It’s there to tidy up your ideas, not to invent them for you.

When I am deep into a topic, my head fills with tangents and questions. That sometimes costs me punctuation, structure, or confidence.
AI helps me manage and organize the chaos, but my voice still has to lead.

3. Lack of Depth — or Lack of Connection?

The problem isn’t always depth.
Often, it’s a connection.

Look at this chart showing the rise of literacy over the past 200 years:

Two centuries ago, only 1 in 10 adults could read. Today, it’s almost 9 in 10 by Esteban Ortiz-Ospina

As literacy grew, so did the complexity of communication.
New codes, jargons, and micro-languages formed like two departments in the same company that speak the same words but don’t really understand each other.

Maybe what we call “lack of depth” isn’t about shallowness at all.
Maybe it’s a failure to bridge those codes, to truly connect.

4. Constant Parallelism

People are layered and complex.
Even if someone seems shallow to us, they probably have someone they connect with deeply.

Same building, same city. Wildly different stories and realities.
AI struggles here because it can’t capture those hidden narratives.

5. No Typos

As a non-native English speaker, grammar tools have been my lifeline for years.
It never occurred to me that perfect grammar might make writing feel “too clean.”

If a lack of typos signals something to you; good or bad. I’d genuinely love to hear why.
For me, it’s always been pure survival.

Where We Go From Here

I’m not a writer, and I’m not here to judge anyone.
These thoughts are my way of screaming into the void, hoping someone screams back. Not out of formality, but out of curiosity.

Every generation has had its own revolution.
People once wrote with feathers; now we type on keyboards.
The tools changed, but the stories stayed human.

Maybe AI is just the next wave of change.
Maybe it’s something bigger.

I do care about your thoughts.
If anything here resonates (or doesn’t), I’d love to hear from you.
No strings attached. Just an honest exchange.