When we simply don’t need the skill in our day-to-day lives, it will erode. However, if we accept that Writing is the medium of research, it also runs the risk of degrading our ability to think. Writing is hard, but the best way to develop your own thinking about a subject.
mass adoption of generated text would likely cause an erosion of standard skills. The average person would not need to be able to string words into sentences and paragraphs on his own, only to read and alter the text that a machine spits out. Habib likened it to how the rise of navigation apps has eroded people’s ability to get around on their own. We can still make sense of physical maps, sort of, but we don’t need to worry about relying on them to get from point A to point B (View Highlight)