every currently problematic technology started as a honey pot that could be turned into a nightmare. then when they killed all the competition got turned it into a nightmare. we can’t ignore the nightmare that it will definitely become. regardless of what it’s luring people in with now. especially when you consider the men in charge of these things.

we can’t keep falling for it. this one has the biggest implications yet. when they get good at using it to manipulate consumer behavior we’re absolutely fucked if the bottom half of the population is addicted. look at how easily they manipulate them anyway through social media. half of the pro trunp tiktoks in the last us election were just sad war clips with a caption like “me and the boys after kamala starts a war with iran”. it worked. now imagine if the thing that they let think for them tells them that trump’s opponent is bad and dumb every time they ask. elon is already openly trying to manipulate grok’s responses.

but it’s impossible to say it better than cory doctorow’s original enshitification article. read that for more.

ultimately the real issue isn’t how accurate they are. it’s giving your mind over to corporations that have a fiduciary duty to maximize profits for their shareholders

or you could waste even less time and not respond, or you could waste less time and resources by just sending them a lmgtfy link.

you shouldn’t need ai to be snarky unless you’re really dumb. like this is still placing your cognitive load on ai. that’s still a much worse decision than just not responding. the answer to bots on the internet is not more bots. unless you wanna arms race this place out of use.