**AI as Procrastination or Distraction** _Core insight:_ While human-like AI personas can support reflection and ideation, they may also become a form of digital distraction — a frictionless, engaging way to _feel_ productive while avoiding action. Also foreshadows a potential future where the advances of AI create greater and more concerning divides between Consumers and Creators. - AI can be a powerful creation tool - and can be used to drive hyper-consumption too. But there might be this trap where if we (the humans) aren't actually producing or creating and sucked or stuck in a paralysis where we are consuming the AI conversation without progress. Further explore angles: - AI as “cozy procrastination” - The paradox of infinite reflection - When synthesis replaces doing _Possible tags:_ #DigitalDistraction #AIProductivity #Procrastination #HumanAI # Bluesky Cozy procrastination = chatting with AI instead of doing the work. Feels productive. Isn’t. #AIProductivity #HumanAI # Substack Note **Cozy procrastination**: when AI reflection feels like work but dodges the hard part — doing. I’ve noticed myself looping in chats, refining ideas, simulating moves… while avoiding the actual next step. If we’re not careful, AI could become a velvet trap — infinite synthesis, zero execution. Let’s use it to act, not just to think. #AIProductivity #Procrastination # Linkedin AI as Cozy Procrastination? 🌀 Have you experienced this too? Has your AI become your co-creator, or just a clever way to avoid doing the hard bit? You sit down with intent to make progress. But instead of acting, you spin up a chat with your favourite AI assistant. You feel productive. Ideas flow. Insights stack. But somehow… nothing moves. Lately I’ve been noticing a quiet trap: AI as cozy procrastination — a frictionless, agreeable space for endless synthesis and reflection that feels like action… but isn’t. I'm concerned as these tools become more capable, there emerges a risk that even those with intent to create rather than consumer, fall into the trap of consumption - being lulled into a loop of synthesis without execution. I’ve caught myself there. Chatting, tinkering, exploring prompts — all the while avoiding the thing that really needed doing. Sometimes what looks like work is really just a high-resolution stall. So here’s the nudge (mostly to myself): Use AI to act, accelerate, be productive and get it shipped. Don't find yourself just starring in the proverbial mirror! **#AIProductivity** **#DigitalDistraction** **#HumanAI** **#Procrastination**