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Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.
The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.
Anu
Aug 11, 2025
The blank box of ChatGPT, Claude, or your large language model of choice staring back at you felt like a clean slate. Here was a remarkable new technology that put the world’s knowledge at our... See more
The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.
Anu
Aug 11, 2025
The blank box of ChatGPT, Claude, or your large language model of choice staring back at you felt like a clean slate. Here was a remarkable new technology that put the world’s knowledge at our... See more
Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.
LLMs and all such products tend to converge: on styles, on forms, on patterns; the “sameness” isn’t incidental, it’s actually core to what these technologies do, how they work; they will always have this quality; this quality is their modus operandi, really! There is no world in which LLMs write interesting things.
Humans care about what other
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