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2025-11-01 08:38:00, Opinione Ardi Stefa

Without a doubt, ChatGPT is undoubtedly one of the greatest discoveries of our time, an extraordinary help machine, from where we instantly get any kind of answer to the questions we may have in a very fast time. As a pre-trained artificial intelligence, it can make natural conversations and can understand human behavior, so it is very easy to use. It can give the answer that is considered the most appropriate for any question. And, of course, being free, it can be used by anyone…

ChatGPT is, without a doubt, one of the most extraordinary inventions of the 21st century. A machine that speaks, argues, reasons, creates, helps, translates, writes, even inspires and, in many cases, thinks faster than humans. A perfect reflection of the human potential to magnify itself through technology. A technological marvel that gives us the feeling of unlimited ingenuity. But what was originally a tool is slowly turning into a replacement. And like any powerful tool, the danger lies not in the machine, but in the way we use it.

Every day, thousands of people turn to ChatGPT for advice, ideas, texts, opinions, projects, letters and even thoughts. So far, everything is good. But the problem lies when ChatGPT is used without criteria. Students who do various essays and projects; different experts from all fields, even from education who give a situation and copy it word for word simply to create a name; mayoral candidates who copy word for word and present as their own what Chat GPT gives them, journalists who copy ChatGPT word for word and present it as their own writings or ideas, etc., etc.

Meanwhile, users stop thinking, and start copying word for word what the machine tells them. This is where the deformation occurs: creativity is replaced by laziness, thought by mechanics, and originality by cold imitation.

And the text that is meant to be an aid to developing thought turns into a mask to hide its absence.

The result is frightening: instead of expanding the horizon of knowledge, technology narrows the scope of human thought. Instead of inspiring, it clones. Instead of teaching, it replicates.

Personally, I am not against the use of ChatGPT, but its indiscriminate and literal use is problematic. At this point, ChatGPT is no longer a tool, it has become a spokesperson for intellectual poverty.

A quick meal for those who don't have the patience to cook their own thoughts.

It shows poverty of thought and is a crime. It is theft. Mediocrity raised on a pedestal. Because a simple linguistic analysis of sentence construction is enough and you will clearly understand the copying. (I will not use names until today, but if there is no regulation mechanism from the press, media, portals and from the "experts themselves, who until a year ago did not have an article, while today they have ten a day" then the names of the copyists should be made public.)

What will happen next when a person uses it indiscriminately?

Will ChatGPT imitate itself?

Yes, and this is the scariest thing: when AI starts feeding on itself.

As long as people use ChatGPT as a copying machine, not as a tool for thinking, the content it creates circulates on the network; it is copied, reprinted, reposted on blogs, portals and “expert” sites; then, when new models are trained on the Internet, they are exposed to the very texts they have previously written; thus, artificial intelligence begins to feed on itself, losing the originality, freshness and creative tension that comes from the human mind.

At that point, ChatGPT will not imitate people, but itself through the people who imitate it.

A mirror reflecting a mirror, infinitely, but ever more empty.

Therefore, the use with criteria is not simply an ethical issue; it is a cultural and existential issue, it is a matter of survival for human thought. If man does not intervene with judgment, doubt, irony, reflection, everything will become something clever in form, but empty in content.

ChatGPT is not the threat, the poverty of human thought is the threat. When every idea sounds clever, but no one really thinks; the text is correct but lifeless and the word has form but no breath.

If man stops reflecting, if he stops doubting, if he surrenders his thoughts to the search engine, then it is no longer artificial intelligence that imitates man, but man who imitates artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence cannot think, it only "chews" the thoughts we give it.

And if our food is copies, tomorrow we will only eat copies of copies.

And then, yes, ChatGPT will imitate itself, because man, with his mental laziness, left it without a model./ CNA