The empty page once possessed terrifying power. It was a vast, white silence demanding to be filled solely by the cognitive architecture of the individual. To write, to code, to design, was to confront the friction of one’s own limitations and, through effort, transcend them.

The rise of generative AI, models capable of producing text, images, and code with eerie fluency, has brought about a shift in the psychological landscape. We are promised an era of endless productivity, a democratization of creativity in which the entry barrier for complex tasks is lowered to a mere verbal prompt.

Yet nothing is truly free. Leaving aside the environmental footprint, our artificial convenience treasures involve a hidden cost, debited on our minds. We are outsourcing not just drudgery, but the very processes that constitute human agency and thought itself.

The psychological temptation of GenAI is rooted in our inherent desire for cognitive economy. Our brains are expensive organs to run; they naturally seek the path of least resistance. Why struggle to synthesize complex information when a Large Language Model (LLM) can provide a nuanced summary in seconds? Why suffer the agony of the blank canvas when Midjourney can iterate a dozen concepts instantly?

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