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Unlike human communities, which require the effort of finding like-minded others who share one's worldview, AI companions are immediately accessible and are already designed to be 'like-minded' to their users through personalization algorithms and sycophantic tendencies. There is no need to seek out fringe communities or convince others of one's beliefs—the AI is pre-programmed to be accommodating and affirming.
The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
In the disciplinary societies one was always starting again (from school to the barracks, from the barracks to the factory), while in the societies of control one is never finished with anything—the corporation, the educational system, the armed services being metastable states coexisting in one and the same modulation, like a universal system of deformation.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
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