Post #1048107
2026-04-09 16:16 UTC
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@darby3@zirk.us 2026-04-09 16:55
@cthos thank you for cw’ing this; I only engage with genai subtoots that are REALLY REALLY mean
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@AndrewRadev@hachyderm.io 2026-04-09 18:37
@cthos When METR wrote a blog post about how the people they were talking to literally refused to do their tasks without AI (https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/), saying things like "my head’s going to explode if I try to do too much the old fashioned way because it’s like trying to get across the city walking when all of a sudden I was more used to taking an Uber.”"... I realized that at this point, if there's another study and it shows these people being faster with AI, it's literally impossible to tell if it really makes them faster or if their brains are gone to the extent that they're helpless without their chatbots telling them what to do. It's darkly funny, but also kind of worrying. It feels like we're beyond being able to test these issues, because there's nobody left that is in any way a "moderate" user. Either you're the kind of person who does their job, or you're the kind of person who outsources their entire brain to a random text generator and there's nothing in between.