On June 10, 2025, people experienced significant withdrawal symptoms during a ChatGPT outage, revealing a profound dependence on AI for creative work. This incident illuminated how deeply integrated AI has become in everyday tasks, including brainstorming for novelists, design work, and academic studying. The collective anxiety during the outage indicated an unsettling trend in which humans increasingly rely on machines for inspiration and problem-solving—activities once deemed uniquely human. This reliance prompts a re-examination of our relationship with technology and what it means for our creative identity.
Many of us have handed over not just our mundane tasks - fair enough - but our inspiration, our problem-solving, even our emotional support to algorithms.
The irony is delicious. We've spent centuries celebrating human creativity as the one thing that makes us special, the irreplaceable spark that separates us from machines.
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