Where in the world is a digital medium?
It’s a good question, maybe even an impossible one. Because it’s digital, it can be nowhere and everywhere at the same time. I didn’t even know where to start looking for an answer. Maybe because… there isn’t one? How can we locate something that doesn’t exist in a physical space?
The more I thought about it, the more questions came to mind. So what did I do? Of course, I asked ChatGPT for help. But since I’m someone who likes to figure things out on my own, I rarely follow its advice completely. Then I realized.. I don’t even know where ChatGPT is! So I asked.
Here’s the copy-paste answer:
“I don’t have a physical location — I exist on OpenAI’s servers, which can be distributed across different regions of the world.”
Even more confusing, right? What does that even mean?
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence, part of the digital world. It “lives” on OpenAI’s servers, which allow it to function. But at the same time, it can be everywhere. Anyone with internet access can use it and ask questions. Depending on what we ask, it connects to information from different places across the globe. If I ask about something happening in Japan, it can “arrive” there instantly.
A quick reflection: Before technological progress spread, the idea of reaching the other side of the world seemed almost impossible. Now, with just one click, we can be there in a second. Incredible, isn’t it?
So again.. Can we really place it somewhere in the world? And even more: in which world? The real one, or the digital one?
If we try to locate it in the digital world, maybe it has a place. But if we try to place it in the real one, it becomes harder. Today, AI is part of our everyday lives. We use it so naturally, whenever we have a doubt, we ask it for an answer, often without thinking twice. Just yesterday at work, I didn’t know an English word. I asked my colleague, and he said, “Ask ChatGPT.”
So, going back to the first question: Where in the world is ChatGPT?
My answer is: everywhere.
I don’t know if that’s good or bad or whether it brings progress or problems to society. But I do know one thing: we need to stay aware of what we’re dealing with. Awareness helps us use it wisely, without being completely absorbed by it.
Because, as I said before, it’s everywhere. But the real world is something else. It’s something we’re at risk of forgetting.
So maybe, in the end, the best place to put it is nowhere.
Because where it truly is depends only on us.
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