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Research into long-term chatbot use remains limited. And we do not know whether such dynamics are likely to only affect those already at increased risk of mental health problems, or whether more subtle belief drifts are to be expected in the general population, thus impacting not only the mental health of the individual in question, but societal cohesion at large.
Technological Folie a Deux - Google Docs
arxiv.org
Others told us that Brand couldn’t really be working class, because he was a millionaire. It’s alarming how many ‘leftists’ seemed to fundamentally agree with the drift behind Paxman’s question: ‘What gives this working class person the authority to speak?’ It’s also alarming, actually distressing, that they seem to think that working class people should remain in poverty, obscurity and impotence lest they lose their ‘authenticity’.
Exiting the Vampire Castle
openDemocracy
This reversal of priorities is one of the hallmarks of a system which can be characterized without hyperbole as ‘market Stalinism’. What late capitalism repeats from Stalinism is just this valuing of symbols of achievement over actual achievement.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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