AI has come to make people become lazy

[lizarder]

Normally, if you give me a computer device to do graphic design I wont be able to perform it better but with AI it was success. Since AI can give me good graphic design, I dont think it will have that urge to go learn graphic design.  I think AI already have the result of what people are supposed to do with their hands. There wont be reason to learn or to work because AI can give people what they want without stress.

Furthermore AI can also shorten work time, making it much easier for someone to get things done and this makes people increasingly dependent on using it. We live in a world of technological sophistication and some people see it as a good thing because it can help them with their work, while others believe the presence of AI will lead to a decline in critical thinking in their work. Although I tend to be in the middle on this issue, the modern era with its increasingly advanced technology demands that humans adapt.

We must admit that AI itself is quite helpful in performing some, though not all, tasks. Human intelligence should not be completely replaced as a mandate from the creator, especially in certain sectors that don't fully rely on AI for their work. In my opinion, humans should be far more perfect because we are indeed creatures created with perfection.

[atookz]

I do not agree with the statement that AI is rendering people lazy. Indeed, AI will not be utilized by lazy individuals in developing. I hold that AI simplifies life and simplifies some processes that were complicated in the first place. AI may act as a portal to further studies, and it should not fully remove the human capability. It will not become an issue provided that one wants to develop, i.e. uses it as the instrument of exploration and personal development, which could even make the process of learning and human creativity faster.

[DrBeer]

We should treat AI as... just another tool that has become part of people’s lives.
Let’s start with the fact that laziness is the engine of progress, and most inventions are designed to SIMPLIFY PEOPLE’S LIVES—that is, to make them lazier Do you get water from the tap? Five hundred years ago, you would have had to dig a well and haul water up in buckets. We’ve become lazy when it comes to water. Once upon a time, you had to grow your own food instead of buying it at the store or ordering it online. You had to chop wood and heat your cave or house, rather than turn on the heat and warm up your apartment. You had to walk ten kilometers to visit someone instead of taking a 15-minute taxi ride. It’s all laziness. And I haven’t even mentioned the elevator yet
AI is also just a tool! It’s designed to make people’s work easier and get results faster. Once we accept this, once we learn to use AI’s advantages—then it will stop being an enemy or a danger.

P.S. You can always grab a pencil and paper or open Photoshop and draw something for yourself so you don’t lose your skills

People just want to take the easy route, so they will choose automation through tech rather than doing things all by themselves. AI is not the only technological advancement that makes people lazy. The Internet, and the Blockchain, too. When you combine AI with Robotics, Quantum Computing, etc, you will get a fully-automated and self-sufficient system that will do everything in life.

Why would we need to work or even learn new things when machines can already do it? That's the future we're heading into. Everybody will be lazy and utterly-dumb (except for old people). Just my two sats.

That's right—it's our laziness that drives the inventions designed to simplify our lives and solve our daily challenges. Laziness drives progress!
The question is, where will humanity go from here? Will we move toward the future depicted in science fiction movies, where people choose to live in “nutrient cocoons” and lead “virtual lives,” or will we remain stuck in our laziness? There is a nuance here, though—the virtualization of life and the potential transfer of consciousness into such systems grants us eternal life and every pleasure without physical limitations! But we’ll have to pay a price for that… And it’s hard to imagine what that price will be!

[DiMarxist]

I think that you got it wrong here with your experience, why I say so is because, A.I should not remove the place of originality and creativity from you as a human. A.I is only there to enhance you do your job and nothing else, if at any point you don't develop your designing skills anymore simply due to A.I tools you have failed to grow and failure to grow is death to me. So you should keep developing yourself and learn more about what you do because there are allot of people who relied deliberately on A.I for virtually every thing that the do which is not a good one to me

[Betwrong]

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That's right. AI is simply a tool and if you use it wisely, you'll become more productive. And vice versa, it all depends on how you treat this AI technology. While saying AI will make people lazy isn't entirely true, it might be more accurate to say that we're oversimplifying everything. AI is like a tool like a calculator or a washing machine both of which take over tedious tasks so we can focus on other things.

Exactly. A calculator can't do everything where calculation is involved and a washing machine won't wash you clothes properly if you put much less washing powder than needed or set the timer on 2 minutes. Those things can help us a lot, but not without our interaction. And with AI it's the same. Unfortunately, some people think that can rely on AI completely and it will do everything for them. That's just wrong. But AI can be a good helper if used properly.

[Fredomago]

To me, sometimes I feel it even makes you more smarter. We all know the artificial intelligence is just a tool to assist us, so most times there are some things we don’t have ideas about and easiest thing to do is to use the artificial intelligence and it quickly gives us information on what we are trying to know and at the same time enhancing our knowledge about information we are trying to get. There are so many people that has learnt a lot through artificial intelligence not just making the brain ineffective.

Actually, what I wanted to say is that what you are doing should be the correct use of artificial intelligence where artificial intelligence is increasing our efficiency. Where we used to have to explore and spend a lot of time to know specific information, if we can give the right prompt to artificial intelligence, it is possible to get that information within a minute.

But here, if we cannot give the right prompt again, then the matter will actually work the other way around because if we do not give the right prompt, artificial intelligence can give us wrong information. So of course, we have to learn prompt engineering well when using artificial intelligence. And of course, artificial intelligence must be used in a way that doesn't cripple us mentally.

Definitely true, but you know in life, everything has advantages and disadvantages. Ai adds value but when it’s been misused can reduce its benefits. Humans most times are fund of misusing things when they find out it of advantage and it then later turn to affect us negatively.

Good point, As long as you know how to handle things the right way there's advantage that you can gain, though if you treat things in the wrong way then expect that there's an after effect after, like your sentiment if you use AI in everything and not to use your own knowledge thinking that it's already providing answers, there's instances that AI can't produce and you may lead to a wrong direction, better to keep the advantage but still sort things the way you understand it.

[jcojci]

I think that you got it wrong here with your experience, why I say so is because, A.I should not remove the place of originality and creativity from you as a human. A.I is only there to enhance you do your job and nothing else, if at any point you don't develop your designing skills anymore simply due to A.I tools you have failed to grow and failure to grow is death to me. So you should keep developing yourself and learn more about what you do because there are allot of people who relied deliberately on A.I for virtually every thing that the do which is not a good one to me

You are right because we can't let A.I create something that remove the originality and creativity of human. That is not a "hand-made" but that is A.I hands so that is not genuine. We have the idea and implement that so we can use it. We have A.I which helps us to enhance our job to be better. It is like we design something, write it on paper and created it then AI do the rest until it is better. We still need to develops ourselves and learn more.

[Lida93]

Right. Anything that is a good thing overall can be abused and become a bad thing for those who abuse it. Saying that AI makes people lazy is like saying that cars make them lazy because instead of walking they are using cars. It's nonsense. If a new thing is invented, learn how to use it properly instead of saying it's a bad thing for humanity just because you don't know how to use it. Try not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

It's looking as though there are people that would vote that we go back to analog than were we have technologically advanced to currently in the digital world. Because I don't understand how inventions that makes life easier would be taken to be something that's making people lazy. Like every other tool that's what AI is,it's about how the individual chooses to use it in advancing his knowledge and creates solutions with that knowledge or to do otherwise in the negative with it.

[Tamaperdana]

I was using one of the AI tools to do some graphic design and it came out so beautiful as a result. I was very happy with the result I got through AI because creating it, it wasn't stressful and the result was productive.

 Normally, if you give me a computer device to do graphic design I wont be able to perform it better but with AI it was success. Since AI can give me good graphic design, I dont think it will have that urge to go learn graphic design.  I think AI already have the result of what people are supposed to do with their hands. There wont be reason to learn or to work because AI can give people what they want without stress.

You're right,, if we look at it from a different perspective, it's clear that AI can make people lazy because it's given too many instant results. Therefore, it's not wrong to say that AI can make people appear lazy. However, I believe its usefulness is no less good, because as long as we can think well, with the help of AI, we can have a great opportunity to change our financial situation. Because with AI, we can truly be guided well to step on a better path, whether in business or other areas.

However, we still need to be able to filter the information provided by AI, because it is artificial intelligence, it certainly has its shortcomings. Therefore,, we must use AI wisely. Because I believe that even though some people say AI can be a threat, I also believe that if we use it for positive things, it can also end well. So,, I suppose that's certainly true about AI making us lazy, but I think AI actually simplifies our work, allowing us to get more done. So, that's my personal opinion.

[Odusko]

Good point, As long as you know how to handle things the right way there's advantage that you can gain, though if you treat things in the wrong way then expect that there's an after effect after, like your sentiment if you use AI in everything and not to use your own knowledge thinking that it's already providing answers, there's instances that AI can't produce and you may lead to a wrong direction, better to keep the advantage but still sort things the way you understand it.

We must say that AI have changed the way both humans and machines functions in a more positive ways, I used to think that the world greatest invention are just few and AI happens to be one of such revolutionary evention that is changing the world, humans have the capacity to adopt and manage the way they use AI and how it functions, AI goes beyond just ChatGPT to more real life functions that can help humans to complete whatever tasks fast.

[Rockstarguy]

I think that you got it wrong here with your experience, why I say so is because, A.I should not remove the place of originality and creativity from you as a human. A.I is only there to enhance you do your job and nothing else, if at any point you don't develop your designing skills anymore simply due to A.I tools you have failed to grow and failure to grow is death to me. So you should keep developing yourself and learn more about what you do because there are allot of people who relied deliberately on A.I for virtually every thing that the do which is not a good one to me

I understand the role AI has come to play in our recent times, but one thing I know for sure is that AI cannot defeat originality. AI might be a very good tool for generating results, but it is not everything that the results of AI will be perfect just as you want, most especially when it comes to graphic design.

You can create exactly what you want and how you want it, but using AI comes with its concepts, which you never had plans for. This is where originality beats artificial intelligence when it comes to results. For me, I don't think AI has come to completely take over, but originality will still be there.

[|MINER|]

Definitely true, but you know in life, everything has advantages and disadvantages. Ai adds value but when it’s been misused can reduce its benefits. Humans most times are fund of misusing things when they find out it of advantage and it then later turn to affect us negatively.

And I would also agree with your opinion here that everything has both the advantage and also the disadvantages However, we should keep in mind that if the disadvantages of any subject are less than its advantages, then we can move forward with it. Artificial Intelligence is basically a subject that will definitely bring us many advantages, just as it happened when electricity energy was discovered, artificial intelligence will take us to unique heights of productivity in the future, but at the same time, it will also leave behind those who do not know how to use it properly or will not.

[DrBeer]

This is a very interesting study and its findings:

Anthropic has published the results (https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews) of a large-scale survey of over 80,000 AI users from 159 countries, conducted via the AI-powered built-in interviewer Claude.

According to them, this is the largest multilingual qualitative study of its kind. Respondents were asked about their real-world experiences with AI, their expectations, and the risks involved; their answers were then automatically classified by Claude itself into categories such as goals, fears, and general attitudes toward the technology.

Key expectations are quite pragmatic: professional efficiency ranks first (about 19%), followed by personal changes, managing daily life, and freeing up time.

• A significant portion of users perceive AI not as a tool to “work more,” but as a way to free up cognitive resources and time for life outside of work—family and self-development. A separate segment (about 10%) directly links AI to financial independence and entrepreneurship.

• At the same time, 81% of respondents stated that AI has already partially met their expectations. The main effects are work acceleration and automation (about 32%), but cognitive partnership, learning, and the lowering of barriers to entry into technical fields also stand out.

• In some cases, AI acts as an “accessibility infrastructure,” allowing people without specialized education to learn programming, launch products, or compensate for limitations, such as those related to speech impairments or learning disabilities.

• Emotional support stands out separately, although formally it accounts for only about 6% of responses. In these cases, users—including those from conflict zones (such as Ukraine)—describe AI as a way to cope with stress, insomnia, and isolation. This highlights an important feature of AI: constant availability and the absence of social pressure.

• Major concerns are distributed more evenly. Unreliability (about 27%) ranks first, including errors and “hallucinations.” This is followed by economic risks (about 22%) and loss of user autonomy (about 22%). Cognitive decline, privacy issues, misinformation, and dependence on AI also remain significant. On average, each respondent cites more than two different risks simultaneously.

• Interestingly, almost all key benefits have corresponding risks. Faster processing can lead to an “illusion of productivity,” where the workload simply increases. Assistance with learning is accompanied by fears of cognitive decline. Emotional support carries the risk of dependency.

• However, these are not different groups of people, but the same users who simultaneously recognize both the benefits and the potential costs of AI use.

• A clear regional shift is observed: in developing countries, attitudes toward AI are more positive, and fears are less pronounced. There, AI is perceived as a tool for social mobility, compensating for a lack of education, capital, and infrastructure.

• In developed economies, conversely, concerns about the labor market, regulation, and privacy are more pronounced, which correlates with a higher degree of technology adoption.

• The methodology warrants separate consideration: this is not a representative sample of the population, but rather active users of Claude. Furthermore, Claude itself acts simultaneously as an interviewer, a classifier, and a tool for selecting quotes. This creates a risk of bias, although no direct signs of manipulation are evident.

• Ultimately, the study captures the current phase of AI adoption: the technology already provides tangible practical value in terms of individual efficiency and learning, but its systemic effects—economic and social—remain in the realm of expectations and concerns.

Anthropic’s main conclusion is not a “for or against” polarization, but rather that users are already evaluating AI through the lens of their specific tasks, simultaneously reaping the benefits of Claude and independently managing risks.

[HONDACD125]

I do not agree with the statement that AI is rendering people lazy. Indeed, AI will not be utilized by lazy individuals in developing. I hold that AI simplifies life and simplifies some processes that were complicated in the first place. AI may act as a portal to further studies, and it should not fully remove the human capability. It will not become an issue provided that one wants to develop, i.e. uses it as the instrument of exploration and personal development, which could even make the process of learning and human creativity faster.

Totally agreed. AI is just another technology like every other technology. When there were no technology, no inventions, humans used to live a difficult life, but as technology started advancing, and new inventions were coming in the world, those inventions made human life easier. Imagine travelling from one country to another without having aeroplanes, people used to travel using either horses or camels, and it would take months to reach from one place to another if the distance was good enough. However, when commute inventions such as car, airplane, cycle, motorcycle, and all other stuff were created, travelling became way easier than before.

Some people actually say that these technologies have made people lazy, because now people don't walk and they use cars and bikes to commute from one place to another, and that doesn't help them in staying healthy, but that's not the technology's fault, it's their fault if they don't work out and take care of their health. Similarly, when it comes to AI, it's not AI's fault if people become lazy because of it, it's their own fault for not knowing the good uses of AI and completely relying on it without doing anything on their own.

[Jostern]

AI is like a tool that is fashioned against human, which is why most people are going to loose their jobs because of availability of AI, now people doesn’t want to do anything from there understanding anymore, because they are more interested in following and making there life’s easy with the usage of AI, and AI is most likely to create unemployment because that is a something that is going to make humans out of job, the creation of AI has it’s advantages and disadvantages, but we wouldn’t understand that even making people lazy is an understatement instead AI is going to make so many individuals loose their jobs, because there are jobs that you will not need human intelligence anymore, because you already have artificial intelligence available to make your life easy and you will not have to pay AI, you will only have to ask and you automatically get the results that you are looking for, which is why in this bitcoin forum artificial intelligence isn’t accepted.

[Felicity_Tide]

AI is like a tool that is fashioned against human, which is why most people are going to loose their jobs because of availability of AI, now people doesn’t want to do anything from there understanding anymore,

That's the problem. It's usage is gradually killing creativity and originality that a lot of people even struggle with before now. It's even difficult to enjoy certain things this days without questioning if it was done with the help of AI. From videos, to writing, the Internet is gradually being flooded with these contents and it's quite alarming that we as humans aren't really putting too many efforts to regulate this things. It's unfortunate that this problem is going to get worse while the AI developers makes fortune from it. Losing creativity and originality in a society might have its own impact in a long run.

[|MINER|]

That's the problem. It's usage is gradually killing creativity and originality that a lot of people even struggle with before now. It's even difficult to enjoy certain things this days without questioning if it was done with the help of AI. From videos, to writing, the Internet is gradually being flooded with these contents and it's quite alarming that we as humans aren't really putting too many efforts to regulate this things. It's unfortunate that this problem is going to get worse while the AI developers makes fortune from it. Losing creativity and originality in a society might have its own impact in a long run.

I would like to agree your opinion that artificial intelligence gradually killings people creativity and originality but I will also say here that Artificial Intelligence will not harm those who have already upgraded themselves over time, but those who are already lazy and have stopped using their human brains completely after getting the touch of Artificial Intelligence, their creativity and originality will definitely go away. And we will also see the effect that they will not be able to get any job or build any career in this competitive market later. And in fact, Artificial Intelligence will replace such people.

[Bright0515]

Ai has a lot of benefits but people only look at the negative sides of it. I don't think the word is "lazy" Ai has made a lot of things easier, people don't have to stress themselves anymore to do certain tasks because Ai can easily do it and in my opinion that's not lazy at all that's just adapting to technological advancements. Programmers don't go through the stress of writing codes anymore to build a software because they can simply make use of AI. People now use Ai to create videos they post on social media to make money.

[StaticVelvet]

I get your point, but I’d frame it differently, AI doesn’t make people lazy, it lowers the barrier to entry. Before, you needed years to design something decent. Now you can start in minutes. That doesn’t replace skill, it just changes where the skill is applied (prompting, editing, refining). Even professional designers are using AI as a tool, not a replacement.
https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai.html       AI removes friction, but creativity still needs a human.

[Crypto_Timothy]

AI is a tool, how you use the tool depends on your imagination, laziness is not you choosing to use a more efficient method. In any businees today what matters is the idea behind what you create and how you guide the tool to bring it to life, if anything, AI just removes stress and saves time so you can focus more on creativity and output. The value is still in your thinking, not just the tool itself so if you ever feel lazy while using AI, just remember it has nothing to do with the tool.