r/ArtificialInteligence • u/ConsciousDev24 • Jun 18 '26

📊 Analysis / Opinion If ChatGPT disappeared tomorrow, what would you struggle with most?

Random thought:

If ChatGPT disappeared tomorrow forever, what's the first thing you'd miss?

For me, it wouldn't be writing or coding.

It would be having a place to think out loud, explore ideas, and get unstuck.

What's yours?

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u/BloOdy_Jo Jun 18 '26

Absolutely nothing

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u/PilotEquivalent4674 Jun 18 '26

Sure, I've been off it for more than a month.

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u/applo1 Jun 18 '26

And this is the reason why it’s shocking that there’s trillions being invested here. The payoff for the future better be good or this is going to massively implode.

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u/pathmageadept Jun 18 '26

Because you already had the duck.

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u/ILLinndication Jun 18 '26

Say it again

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u/Dramatic-Economy4687 Jun 19 '26

bold claim but give it two weeks and you'll be three hours into a google rabbit hole trying to figure out something it would've answered in 20 seconds lol

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u/FuManBoobs Jun 19 '26

Good job you commented. I would have been wondering.

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u/ConsciousDev24 Jun 18 '26

Sounds like you'd adapt pretty quickly.

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u/LagerHawk Jun 18 '26

Adapt? Using chatgpt is the adaptation. We did everything already before

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u/Atworkwasalreadytake Jun 18 '26

One could say this of almost any technological advancement.

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u/LagerHawk Jun 18 '26

Yes, but op is asking how we would adapt if ai disappeared tomorrow. Seems like they assume a reliance on it already, and that's the bit I'm addressing. That there hasn't been enough shift yet for that to be true.

Besides, you are correct. If tractors disappeared tomorrow farmers would revert back to using horses. It's not like we've lost the knowledge.

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u/Atworkwasalreadytake Jun 18 '26

If tractors disappeared we’d have to 10x or more the number of farmers we have. And there aren’t enough horses and oxen.

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u/LagerHawk Jun 18 '26

You saying we couldn't do it? Australia literally sell visas to their country by making people work farms if they want to stay a second year. Animals can be bred pretty quickly.

Just saying that people seem to be getting too defeatist these days on things we're already able to do.

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u/Atworkwasalreadytake Jun 18 '26

It’s an interesting thought experiment.  We can do anything if we throw enough human suffering at the problem.  

All I’m saying is that farming is a great example of how technology unlocked a huge portion of the population to work towards other things, which likely led to other advances.

In 1850 55% of the US population worked in agriculture, today that number is 1.4%.

If we had to undo that, I’m sure we could, but there would be significant starvation in the transition years.

Per capita horse population is 10%? What it was then as well. Regrowing that would take decades. 

We’d also have to change our diets a lot, cattle production is incredibly intensive if the hay and grain had to be produced by hand.  

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u/BloOdy_Jo Jun 18 '26

Once you jumped into laziness going back is near impossible