How rotted are we talking?
Like, are you aware you asked this exact question a week ago?
Best of luck finding a way through.
Try a boardgame club or cafe. Or contribute to a FOSS project.
You’re absolutey right!
You’re doing great though, that’ll be 3 tokens, kthxplsbai!
If I understand the question, you need to just stop using AI.
A few months ago, there was a post about geting over ai addiction with improv. If that was you, and you are still using ai, improv isn’t the answer. Step one - delete your ai accounts.
My understanding is that the reason the brain gets rotted by AI is because you do less thinking per question/problem, leading to your mind thinking less in general and getting used to that. So the solution should be to get your brain thinking more to readjust back to where it was (and beyond!).
A day or two ago in another thread someone posted these two daily brain teaser websites:
https://www.minutecryptic.com/
You could try replacing some time spent scrolling each day with solving these. Minutecryptic especially is requiring me to flex my mind in new ways.
What do you mean by improv?
Improv comedy and improv theatre
Advice might be dependent on what you use it for at the moment.
So what do you use it for at the moment?
Coming into summer is a great time to cut it out of your life, so off to a good start.
Or you could pivot to using it for useful things. I don’t think it’s useless, you can use it to learn programming and stuff.
I’ll speak directly to the last question: if you use AI as a means to generate ‘creative’ output (see: ideas on various topics/themes stolen from other folks), improv will likely help with learning to think on your feet and confidence in expressing yourself with reference just to the electrical impulses in your own noggin.
But I don’t think that alone is sufficient to fix a truly ‘AI-rotted brain’, which I take to mean a mind that reaches for easy answers and shortcuts. That’s a bigger project, and there’s a lot of good comments here and on your other post in that vein.
I don’t know your IRL circumstances, but a project idea for you: take a walk around the place you live with a notepad. Write down every question you have about any old stuff that catches your fancy/strikes you as weird (probably a good idea to take pictures too). Try and find the answers to those questions without using AI - instead, talk to a librarian, send an email to your local historical society, etc. etc. Ask for resources about the topic in question. Bonus points if you take that info and make something creative with it - a poem, a short story about someone contemporary to the thing you’re curious about, one act play, interpretive dance, whatever.
Like this for you simply because, depending on where you live and what catches your fancy, there may not be that much info fed into an AI database, but there could totally be a book/collection in an archive/knowledgeable person who’d be happy to chat about it.
