If We Keep Letting AI Write Our Stories, Who Will Remember How We Felt?

Technology is here to stay. But before the era of "I'll just ask ChatGPT" was the tragedy and victory of being human: suffering for every profound thought we earn.

- By Mikaela Gabrielle De Castro

I haven't written like this in a while. Not a memo. Not a press release. Not a brief. Just for the sake of it. Finishing an article felt like sending a message in a bottle: uncertain who would read it, but certain it had to be written.

Now, the words came less often. I told myself it was the weight of being a full-time government employee while freelancing. But deep down, I knew it wasn't just the career path. I couldn't treat my craft the way I used to. The real reason? Maybe AI.

My friends joke that I'm as wordy and preachy as ChatGPT. But I know that even with all its "eloquence," it could never replicate the singular voice we each bring to our writing. So I took the teasing in stride, only trying out the bot to generate satire and pompous Facebook captions. What began as a harmless novelty gradually encroached on the very space I once reserved for the best parts of my mind.

Technology is here to stay. But before the era of "I'll just ask ChatGPT" was the tragedy and victory of being human: suffering for every profound thought we earn.

CHAT, AM I LOSING TO AI?

"At first glance, ChatGPT seems like a good solution. You feed all your data into this AI. You ask it to summarize things, to do simple tasks — admin tasks at first. So from this very little reliance, it turns to 'do my schedule for me,' 'brainstorm things for me,'" psychometrician and mental health resource speaker Justine Danielle Reyes tells Young STAR.