How to treat generative AInxiety

Generative AI, whether it be computer generated writing using ChatGPT or creating images using Dall-E, is creating social AInxiety.

Anxiety is the mind and body's reaction to stressful, dangerous, or unfamiliar situations. It's the sense of uneasiness, distress, or dread you feel before a significant event. A certain level of Anxiety helps us stay alert and aware,

The word anxiety is derived from the Latin word ‘angere’ meaning to choke, or strangle. According to Longman Contemporary English Dictionary(2003), anxiety is the feeling of being very worried about something.

While the potential applications of generative AI programs are many, employers, social scientists, intellectual property experts, ethicists, teachers, and many others are worried and anxious about the unintended consequences and abuse of large language model technologies. Some even think it is a threat to our democracy.

Take writing things, for example.

Here are 500 words on how you can make writing an entrepreneurial habit. But now you are faced with a decision to 1) write it all by yourself, 2) have a computer program do it for you, or 3) have the computer write an initial draft and personally revise and edit it before publishing or submitting it.

Here are some guidelines on responsible ChatGPT for students and teachers.

Consumers see value in things that are handmade and are willing to pay a premium for them.

Why should you value things you create or write yourself?

1. It helps you learn things
2. Handwritten personal notes have more impact.
3. Participants clearly favored handmade items when they were making a purchase for a loved one, and many were willing to pay up to 17% more for handmade items in general. Consumers seemed to believe that the creator's love for the handmade product had somehow transferred to the product itself, and that the product now "contained love." This was found to be the case even when the customer did not personally know the creator or even who the creator was.
4. Writing yourself will motivate you to read more
5. Relying on a computer to solely research the answer to a question is subject to bias, omissions, misinterpretation, factual errors or errors in decision making
6. Computer generated writing negates your personal voice
7. Computers have a hard time expressing intuition or a contextual sense of humor. They have a tough time laughing at New Yorker cartoons.
8. You are stealing someone's intellectual property. Is that OK? What if the IP is yours?
9. You might be accused of cheating on your exams
10. You might have to write something where there is no broadband. Given the digital divide, it will exacerbate social inequities and educational outcomes.
11. You don't have to use something you don't trust
12. It cheapens your "personal" brand
13. It creates more digital health ethics problems. What should be the accountable reporting standard for someone who uses generative AI? What should be the rules, rights and regulations?
14. Here is why I still use business cards and write things on the back of them when I meet someone. It's just more civil that way and it helps people play nicer with each other.
15. Given the law of reciprocity, maybe someone will send me a handwritten something in the mail. I also read a newspaper the old-fashioned way because I like the way it feels in my hands.
16. It will help manage your technofatigue

The definitive treatment for ChatGPT AInxiety is don't use it. But the paste is out of the tube and your Luddite instincts might cause even more worry if you don't use it. Soon we'll be reading an article entitled, "Trying to Live a Day Without AI".

As noted, few products today are purely machine-made or handmade, and managers have a great deal of freedom in choosing how to market an item. Emphasizing the handmade aspect of a product can make it significantly more attractive, especially when consumers want to convey love to someone, so reach out and touch someone.

Many people have anxiety about public speaking. I used to have anxiety about writing but managed to work through it without ChatGPT. For others, it might be a tool to help them or get in the way of overcoming their fears. Each person will have to choose and see what works.

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs

Disclosure: I write all my posts myself (but with the help of Microsoft grammar and spelling corrector)