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the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person

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I actually think it's the prompt-credit-treadmill, where the AI keeps missing the mark so you have to keep paying to get the right answer. Like if wikipedia functioned like a slot machine.

Folks are more manageable this way. Instrumentarian philosophy’s goal is to make everything as predictable as possible… so, yeah. Giving up choice, and, there by, access to the future, IS the aim of those in charge of running ChatGPT or any other platform that involves itself in your life.