Abstract: The wide application of ChatGPT poses a challenge to the humanities, greatly impacts the fields of knowledge transmission and production of humanities, and forms a substitution effect on the humanities ability. A detailed analysis of ChatGPT's technical route shows that, compared with human creativity, ChatGPT's internal logic is based on existing data, and its output answers are represented by the rearrangement and combination of existing data, which inevitably has the characteristics of "bias", "average", "only taking but not making up", "only asking but not answering" and so on. Without reflecting on its ethical characteristics, it may lead to the alienation of humanities. Human beings are rational beings with self-consciousness, which determines that the development of the humanities must be based on the cultivation of human nature and the creation of human beings. Even before the advent of strong artificial intelligence, in order to cope with the crisis of the humanities, people still need to constantly create and update human language, ideas and values based on self-awareness. But the humanities should embrace ChatGPT and use its strengths to develop the humanities' unique values. In terms of education mode, three kinds of role interaction, namely teacher, student and generative AI, can be introduced into educational practice to realize the digital transformation of humanistic education. In the humanistic education system, we should pay more attention to individuation, creativity and scene.