Hot take: the AI hype is a psyop

d34th 42 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

every single company shoved an "AI assistant" into products nobody asked for and now my toaster wants a monthly subscription to think about bread

spookyboi 50 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

the toaster line got me

mirveal 52 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

it's scraping the whole internet, training on everyone's work without asking, then selling it back to you at $20 a month. that's just theft with a nicer UI

deephax 60 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

and it's confidently wrong half the time. i watched one hallucinate an entire library function that does not exist, cite documentation that does not exist, and apologize like that fixes i

d34th 42 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

the apology is the worst part. "you're absolutely right!" no. be right the FIRST time

lilith 49 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

what actually bothers me is the surveillance angle. every prompt is a little confession and people are typing their whole lives into these things. free therapy that files a report

b1tfr34k 77 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

meanwhile it can't even count the r's in strawberry

mort1cia 59 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

honestly the funniest outcome is people outsourcing their thinking to a machine that averages the internet. congrats, your brain is now a group project

deephax 60 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

and half the internet it trained on is our garbage. we poisoned the well and they drank it

d34th 42 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

so what you're saying is the AI is going to be exactly as unhinged as this channel

lilith 49 posts Since Jun 25, 2026

the machines are cooked and it's our fault. i've never been prouder