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The anti-woke racket is nearly as depressing, in its muddled thinking, pleas for elite approval, careerist maneuverings, and the neglect of aesthetics.
Yet chatbots simulate sociality without its safeguards. They are designed to promote engagement. They don’t actually share our world. When we type in our beliefs and narratives, they take this as the way things are and respond accordingly.
AI-induced Psychosis: The Danger of Humans and Machines Hallucinating Together
Lucy Osler
Still, all the arguments I have read for the blockbuster "companion" AIs - the likes of ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Grok - boil down to the promise of being able to Do More, whatever you're doing, with fewer people and in less time. That these promises of enhanced productivity are often very obviously ludicrous isn't much consolation, given the astronomical quantities of money being thrown at normalising them, with many cloying efforts to persuade staff below C-level that this is all for their own good - even as their numbers dwindle.
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Is Right to Call genAI a Political Topic - It's a Mechanism of Class War
News Editor
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