Your AI best friend is making you stupid

I would say that it's a fantastic control mechanism.

When humans stop using their own common sense to make arguments, and lend out their critical thinking capabilities to a captured creature like Grok... "who is guarding the Guardians"? Just like Plato's cave analogy with the Guardians casting shadows, who's to say that Elon Musk isn't feeding input data that skews the narrative around the Epstein Files?
Instead of reading the e-mails of him begging to get invited to Epstein's parties for ourselves, why not just shut our eyes and forget that the overlords are all luciferian despots...

It's also making us stupid from a financial perspective. The bubble is engineered to be burst at the right moment, for it hasn't made any economic sense for the past year.
From JP Morgan 27/10/2025:

Oracle’s stock jumped by 25% after being promised $60 billion a year from OpenAI, an amount of money OpenAI doesn’t earn yet, to provide cloud computing facilities that Oracle hasn’t built yet, and which will require 4.5 GW of power (the equivalent of 2.25 Hoover Dams or four nuclear plants), as well as increased borrowing by Oracle whose debt to equity ratio is already 500% compared to 50% for Amazon, 30% for Microsoft and even less at Meta and Google. In other words, the tech capital cycle may be about to change.

I just asked three different AI tools with about four different prompts each about a fairly niche point of Italian law to supplement my own research, and got about 70% concurrence among them that agreed with my own research plus a few nonsense hallucinations. I could have saved the time spent on those things and just read more to the same effect. I can’t imagine how screwed up you can get if you just rely on the things.

Now people are making OnlyFans with AI-generated thots for simps to send money to.