Post #644630

2026-03-11 11:16 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joshuaelliott/116209921179982230 this is the main reason why i believe that chatbot addiction / chatbot psychosis is a LOT more widespread than we realise: people with a clear understanding of the ethical issues try claude once, it does a thing correctly enough, they get one-shot, and they start posting like if sephiroth was on linked-in, ethical concerns be damned. it keeps happening. it&#39;s a big part of why i refuse to touch LLMs: i am not special, i am not magically immune to the brain worms that have claimed so many smart people. if it happened to them it could happen to me.

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@balinares@furry.engineer 2026-03-11 17:37

@nicuveo@tech.lgbt I mean, the path of least aggregate harm just doesn't come with signposts and everyone is just trying to figure things out, and we're all here groping around in the fog on ground that keeps shifting on a weekly basis. So do you deadass abandon the normies around you to the grift? Or do you try to reign them in as you can? The latter means you need some understanding of what they're on about, else they'll just disregard you as clueless the moment you say something completely at odds with their experience. Do you outright surrender the battlefield to a few US megacorps? Or do you try to understand how to make alternatives viable, and at what externality cost? Is the right path political, economical, technical? (...)

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@chrisvest@mastodon.social 2026-03-11 18:54

@nicuveo@tech.lgbt (sephiroth-on-linkedin would be a hilarious mastodon bot account, though)

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