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AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
Now, even this isn’t new — through the historical record, we find many examples of small groups of people who coalesced around a shared delusion. The difference is that old timey people had to luck into finding someone else who shared their delusion, while modern, internet-enabled people can just use the Reddit search-bar.
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AI psychosis and the warped mirror
Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy. Here’s a true story:
All week I’d been getting texts and calls from a family member – let’s call him Bob – about how his sentient AI was wanting to get in touch with me. I figured it was one of Bob’s usual jokes. It was not.
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Tyler Altermanx.comAs instant "fake content" becomes more and more like "real content" that takes hours to painstakingly produce, the outcome is clear:
The Internet will become, slowly and then suddenly, completely fake.It will become a market for lemons.