Will AI take us towards refinement of the self?

In Would You Rather Have Married Young?, Lillian Fishman writes about the "fundamental ethos that had long governed the young secular woman" in the last 50 years:

Experience, we hoped, would broaden us. The new object seems to be the inverse: the contraction and refinement of the self, within and against the overwhelming flood of external information with which we are in constant contact.

This seems to be the long-term trend: from a choice between 5 newspapers, to 100 TV channels, to millions of influencers, to AI that can generate infinite options. If any experience can be had free and instantly on your phone, there is much less value in pursuing it. And it's not only digital. Youtube is a good-enough substitute for many real world experiences, from woodworking to travel.

Instagram took us deeper into the fake value of experience. My hope is that with ChatGPT, the illusion is broken and we collectively will reduce our contact with the flood, and turn the focus more inward.