The Effect of over relaying on Internet and the world of "Shorts"

         I was not planning to write any blog post. I have not done so in a long time. Currently I am in a phase where the personal and professional lives are in a transformative phase. So many changes happening rapidly. I am up for the challenge. Writing a blog post was never in my mind, Until Google sent me a notification that my drive is 87% full. So, I was going through the old files sorting which to keep and to delete. I came across some of the assignments I wrote for elective subjects when I was in Year one in the university. I was shocked, Am I the writer of the text? I did not remember writing them. I was skeptical, so I did a plagiarism check, to my astonishment the writing was more than 95% unique. So, there is no other explanation but I have written them.

    Now I am wondering why I could not write in the same level. I write at least 5 e-mails with subject content every day. I am impatient in spending time writing mail, so jotted down the important points and let the AI do it job to polish and formalize the text. To be fair I was not a creative writer, I lack very much in imagination when writing. But I was a better writer who can pass on the facts without the reader feeling fatigue.

    What changed? I do think over reliant on the internet and lately AI tools impacted very much. Then all the videos I consumed regarding the dangers of Internet and AI likely be true. I recently notices that my attention span is reduced considerably, I watch movies in 1.5 or 2 X speeds. I don’t have patients for slow burn no more. Do I need to make few changes to lifestyle to overcome them?

    While I was writing this, I was checking plagiarism on another assignment. It came back 85% unique, I was shocked so I checked from where the plagiarism is. It was from a research paper from 2019. But I wrote the assignment back in 2012. This means that doctoral candidate copied from me. Just think about it.