AI Is Creating a Generation of Fake Experts and Nobody Wants to Talk About It
The internet has never been louder with “experts” than it is right now. Everywhere you look someone is selling a course, offering mentorship, or claiming they cracked some AI formula that’ll make you rich in a week. And the crazy part is how real it all looks. AI gave people the ability to sound intelligent without the foundation. To package ideas they don’t fully understand. To talk like leaders without ever having led anything. We’re living in a time where confidence gets mistaken for knowledge and AI fills in the gaps nobody wants to admit they have.
You spend five minutes online and you can feel it. People giving advice they didn’t live through. People teaching skills they learned yesterday. People copying content word for word from AI tools and acting like they lived the lesson. And the worst part is how easy it is to believe them because AI makes everything look polished. Everything looks clean. Everything sounds smart. But beneath the surface there’s this emptiness, this hollowness, this lack of depth that you can’t hide if you really pay attention. AI didn’t create experts. It created performers.
People Are Starting To Sound Smart Without Ever Becoming Smart
AI can make your writing sound intelligent. It can shape your tone. It can give you words you didn’t earn. And because of that, the line between someone who actually knows something and someone who’s pretending gets thinner every day. Real expertise comes from trial, failure, reflection and repetition. AI shortcuts don’t give you any of that. You can sound smart without being wise. You can explain concepts you’ve never lived. You can package a lesson you never learned the hard way. And when you mix that with the pressure to “keep up,” people start chasing the illusion of expertise instead of the path that actually makes you one.
The saddest part is seeing people rely on AI so heavily that they lose their own voice. They stop thinking deeply. They stop analyzing. They stop questioning. They outsource every thought to a model and wonder why they no longer feel grounded. AI can elevate you, but only if you already have something real inside you to elevate. If you don’t, you’re just building a persona, not a foundation. And personas crack fast.
If You Don’t Build Depth, AI Will Expose You Instead of Empower You
This era rewards people who think. People who feel. People who reflect. AI isn’t a replacement for that. It’s an amplifier. It magnifies your strengths and exposes your weaknesses. If you know what you’re doing, AI makes you unstoppable. If you don’t, AI makes it painfully obvious. And the ones who rise will be the ones who use AI to sharpen their identity, not replace it. To deepen their understanding, not fake it. To grow their voice, not borrow one.
There’s nothing wrong with using AI. The danger is using it as a mask instead of a tool. When the world is full of noise, the people who stand out will be the ones who bring truth, depth and lived experience into the conversation. Everyone else will fade because authenticity always survives the algorithm.
