The hallucinating, gaslighting, sycophantic chatbots that were hyped via propaganda campaigns that promoted them as the future and key to efficiency, are now destroying humanity and locking people in addictive cycles of delusion.

“Ya better hop on board! Don’t wanna get left behind…”

The hallucinating sycophantic chatbots are not only destroying the capacity for human relationships and interactions, they’re not even “efficient” and have destroyed most of the companies that have embraced them.

The economy is absolute shit. “AI” companies aren’t even making any money but the chatbot addicts are still throwing endless piles of cash at them to burn while chasing the high that will never deliver (the cycle of desperate delusions common to any addiction), because the chatbots have them convinced (deluded) they’re always on the edge of the big breakthrough that will finally make it all worthwhile.

And as the number of data centers increases, people are starting to take notice it sure does seem to be getting hot in this pot of boiling water… “Wonder what that’s all about? I’ll ask the company that owns the data center if it’s anything I should be concerned about?”

“… Nope, turns out there’s a reassuring explanation for why this is all fine and nothing is as it seems… It just feels like this pot of water is getting hotter to you, but facts don’t care about your feelings. You can’t argue with facts…”

“Just relax and come on in, the water’s fine!”

I’m also interested in this as a topic.

As in, I’m not planning a professional degree around it, but I would definitely read your academic articles if you published research.

As far as grants, not sure if you’re in the U.S., but at the moment I doubt it, but the entire grant system is completely fucked right now for just about every field. Mainly because like you said, the people in charge of private and federal grants ARE also working with the billionaires behind AI, with the shared goal of tightening their grip on power and collapsing the federal government.

I do think the future will demand this kind of work, and if humanity makes it past this dark chapter, we will need to use this as a template of what not to do when it comes to technology and progress.

Complete privatization, lack of transparency, misinformation, suppression of information, and invasion of privacy are just a few of the important and relevant topics that come to mind. I could see it being an especially relevant dissertation topic for Sociology, Economics, and Communications.

Personally I’ve found myself really interested in how AI disinformation and information control relates to Public Health communications.

Also, there was a talk at MIT from this past April I think you might find interesting. I’ll find the link and post it here.

Edit: Propaganda and AI

https://youtu.be/m0ALxSjkxTc

Honestly I think that’s the goal…

They only kept us around as long as they did bc they needed labor. Once they can actually replace everybody with bots why would they need to worry about an economy for anybody but themselves?

Hope everybody’s as jazzed as I am for Lazer tag to make a comeback 🔮

I bet that 16% have already let AI talk them into some really awful financial decisions

promoting insecurities/dangerous chemicals/steroids/treating women like objects/penis pumps/etc to children.

I had heard of hitting your jaw with a hammer, which is definitely all kinds of batshit insane, but in addition to Looksmaxxingn in general and this whole sentence sounding very Epsteinesque, aren’t penis pumps alleged to be the cause behind his distinctive egg/lemon shaped dick deformity?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-victim-describes-his-extremely-deformed-fruit-shaped-penis/

For a better understanding of how Epstein used the internet and tech to target and undermine the education, mental health and well being of youth, (to clarify, this is in addition but not unrelated to his other criminal activity), I recommend the Behind the Bastards episode about Epstein and Activision:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-jeffrey-epstein-helped-build-the-modern-world-323226341

Dude was strategically planning ways to use video games and social media to target America’s youth with the ultimate goal of creating a society of sexist, misinformed, uneducated, and insecure voters who would be willing to vote against their own interests and easier for the elites to control.

The one on the left looks like she would get offended if you pointed out the reality that the ship is sinking instead of going along with the delusion.

Like a magician accidentally revealing their own secret mid trick and getting mad if you don’t pretend to be baffled at how they just sawed that lady in half and put her right back together.

In many of the cases in the essay, chatbots responded to users with mystical language to suggest that users have heightened spiritual importance. The bots also implied that users were speaking with a cosmic being who was using the chatbot as a medium.

Idk, I feel like a true misanthrope would be able to read these 2 sentences and at the very least immediately swear off AI chat bots, if not move to a completely isolated cabin in the woods with no electricity or internet.

It’s like the broligarchy birthed a bastard child that’s just a composite of humanity’s worst qualities. All the traits they projected on to the masses as evidence to justify their antidemocratic savior complex bullshit. Impulsive/poor decision making, superstition, paranoia, narcissism.

They’re investors, not inventors, but they’re 100% convinced this bullshit is going to be man’s greatest and longest lasting contribution to existence, and that their names will go down in history as the technocratic leaders who changed the world… And their own delusions are probably being fueled by the same fucking chat bots, and sharing data between platforms in a never ending sycophantic circle jerk that’s spreading exponentially like the dumbest fucking virus to ever exist… I just… 🤦‍♀️

Tldr: These people don’t deserve the title of misanthrope.

Edit: I guess I should add the caveat that in the case destruction of humanity/civilization was always the actual goal of some 4-D misanthropic chess master behind the curtain, then bravo and hats off to them for being a real one, I guess?

I feel like there needs to be a more accurate name for whatever the phenomenon of AI fueled sycophantic delusion is. Because clearly it’s something, and more and more people seem to be noticing it.

It’s like the people who are closest to the person spiraling can see they’re watching a train headed towards a brick wall, and they can’t stop it. But the person experiencing the delusion is often still fairly high functioning, so other people who are a bit more removed from the situation tend to to be very dismissive of the comparison to psychosis.

At least until the poor decision making of the delusional person expands to their world, and everything starts going tits up for them too. Then suddenly they’re like “Gorsh, he just seemed so confident and he was wearing a suit, so I assumed he had his shit together. But now that he’s draining MY bank account, I think something might be wrong with his brain.”

Like what’s a better way to describe the high functioning level of AI fueled delusional? Where he hasn’t sold all of his assets and moved to the desert so he can fully devote himself to whatever breakthrough he believes he’s on the verge of discovering (yet), but somebody should really stop this guy before he does any more damage to himself or others?

Soft Psychosis?

Sure he would, he probably just means they will no longer need two full time incomes. Greatness awaits America in a future when only one adult from a household has to work full time.

Sure the other adult and some fraction of the (?/5+)* children that federal and state policies ensure they’re forced to give birth to, may need to take on some form of employment to keep food on the table or meet their state’s medicaid and/or food stamp work requirements.

But when that inevitably happens, they always have the freedom of picking up a few shifts at one of Daddy Bezo’s local warehouses,** guaranteed to be located in an American hellscape near you, and sandwiched conveniently between your local data center and concentration camp detention center.

If you’re from a really bougie area, you might just have a hospital across the street from your Amazon warehouse full of doctors trained at Wal-Mart’s new medicals schools (bc America thrives on competition 🙃), who will rely on AI for patient diagnosis instead of wasting time and money on all those unnecessary lab workups.

Yep. With the system working as intended and the Oligarchy steering us towards greatness, how could America be anything other?

(*Unknown/variable number will actually survive past early childhood in a country hell bent on bringing back so many preventable diseases. On the bright side, no more public education = no more schools = no more “germ factories.” Unless you’re counting the actual factories where American children will work instead of going to school.)

(**As long as it leaves them just below 40 hrs a week and unable to qualify for health insurance through their employer.)

Inside you there are 2 wolves

It feels ridiculous I have to say this, but it feels so good to hear about a politician just immediately saying “oh yeah, we needed to figure out where to make cuts, and these shitty AI chat bots seemed like an obvious place to start.”