Maybe, for no reason, I have been afraid.
I have been afraid of leaving digital footprint and behavioural patterns.
How my search results are customised for me.
How I almost never needed to go past the first search result page.
But I still had to navigate.
Sometimes I could not find the answer.
And I got frustrated.
Still, I did go to the second page.
And I learned.
I learned how to improve results.
I learned to be more specific.
I learned a skill.
Now ChatGPT brings the whole world to me.
Maybe it looks into the fifth search result page, where I never looked.
It gives me exactly what I want.
It interprets and does the job for me.
Now I don’t have to struggle.
Now I don’t have to refine my query.
Now I don’t get frustrated.
Maybe that’s the problem.
It’s like growing up as a privileged kid.
The kid who doesn’t know what the real struggle is.
The struggle to browse the internet on 2G.
Still be able to download a YouTube video with a download manager.
Is my world becoming too perfect?
Is it limiting me to grow?
Is it letting me know everything rather than learn?