Ipromptism: Is AI Creating a New Form of Illiteracy?
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Generative AI
Ipromptism: Is AI Creating a New Form of Illiteracy? Over the past two years, something fundamental has changed in the way we produce knowledge. We no longer write first. We prompt. Large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini have transformed the act of writing into something different: instead of directly producing text, we increasingly instruct machines to generate it for us. The workflow has shifted. Instead of thinking → structuring → writing, we now often: formulate a prompt generate text refine the output This shift is incredibly powerful.