The first player plays chess but with digital conveniences. The second player tells the machine to play for them, cognitively surrendering as much as possible.

It is a spectrum, we can image many hypothetical players in-between those two who take on varying cognitive shares

The computer does indeed help the first player. It may be slight, but it’s disingenuous to say it’s zero

However it is far, far more disingenuous to imply both players are the same. “Ai is just a tool!” yeah a tool that thinks for you in a game about thinking.

AI users remind me of the kids in school who would trace art and then present it as wholly their own. And then double down when called out on it. And then cry and scream when you show proof

It’s not so much that they traced art: it’s the lying to your face that always got me

They want the social clout of being the kid who can “draw good” but without the work. And when they don’t get it because…obviously, we can tell they didn’t make it, they lose their fucking minds