Exploring ChatGPT

Exploring ChatGPT

Choice Doesn’t Start With You

AI Does

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Exploring ChatGPT
Jan 26, 2026
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Most people think they are still making their own choices.

What career to pursue.
What to watch.
What to buy.
Who to date.
What to learn.

But more and more of those choices now begin somewhere else.

They begin as suggestions.

AI systems recommend what you should read, watch, apply for, listen to, respond to, and consider next. Not aggressively. Not forcefully.

Quietly.

The shift is subtle.

Life is no longer something you initiate first.

It is something you select from.

And that changes what choice actually means.

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