This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

March 31, 2026 - 01:33 UTC

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You're absolutely right

They want to weaken the concept of truth until it's societally irrelevant
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This is their most sinister goal: to make reality unknowable, to dissolve the concept of mutual perception and agreement
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I'm glad you wrote this, but at the same time I'm now disturbed by the sudden push for this garbage by leaders instead of just annoyed by it.

Thanks?
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Finally, finally, people are having to face the necessity of thinking critically about the reality and/or truth of what's presented to them. This is a bad thing how, exactly?
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What tools will people use to assess the reality of what is presented to them.

How will they assess the reality presented by those tools.

At what point do people give up and abandon the futile effort to assess truth.
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This is very true. But I think it's also a massive campaign against standards in anything: we are now the awkward squad for expecting instructions to be right, factual text to be factual, tech not to harm the vulnerable. All those years our institutions had mottos like 'pursuing excellence'. Now...
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... most institutions mottos would need to be 'just accept the inadequate and stop making trouble'. Quite a pivot to live through.
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I'm not sure what I hate more, that I'm expected to be able to recognize it or that I have read enough slop text at this point that I actually CAN recognize it.
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I wish you’d been in my SLT meeting this morning.
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I don’t know what SLT is but I’m glad my presence is wished-for!
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This is clearly not true and completely indefensible.
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Hence bsky.app/profile/michelechampagne.com/post/3mia2fjr4b22j
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This thread links a bunch of my actual publications on this aspect of AI as a permission structure for this political and economic program. Share with your friends and bosses! Fun for all! bsky.app/profile/sonjadrimmer.bsky.social/post/3meyb7bv7sk2f
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The very first thing engineers went after were the arts. Replacing humans at the most human form of work, and recreation. Replacing our humanity right from the jump. As if to say, you are now a meat robot, not even worthy of creativity.
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Androidization is a totalitarian project.
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Turning even the composition of thought and basic emotional needs into a casino, per @abiawomosu.bsky.social abiawomosu.substack.com/p/you-should-anthropomorphise-your
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Thank you for this.
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