Whether intentional or not, this is gaslighting. “Here’s the trendy reaction those wacky lemmings are currently upvoting!”
Getting to the core issue, of course we’re sick of AI, and have a negative opinion of it! It’s being forced into every product, whether it makes sense or not. It’s literally taking developer jobs, then doing worse. It’s burning fossil fuels and VC money and then hallucinating nonsense, but still it’s being jammed down our throats when the vast majority of us see no use-case or benefit from it. But feel free to roll your eyes at those acknowledging the truth…
it’s literally making its users nuts, or exacerbating their existing mental illness. not hyperbole, according to psychologists. and this isn’t conjecture:
I was talking about how shitposting on reddit became a cesspool because people started to post actual shit takes and then claim “it’s just a joke bro” when called out on it. I’m starting to see the same thing here in Lemmy; this post being an example. I’d rather this community didn’t get overrun by chuds.
Yup. it is a shitpost, so when people show up to defend the obviously damaging tech, that seems… tonedeaf lol.
imagine someone posted ‘child molesters bad’ and thousands of people agreed… but then there’s this one person who’s like “well, aktually…” you’re on point, if we keep letting the chuds control the narrative it’ll be a chud bar in no time.
Whether intentional or not, this is gaslighting. “Here’s the trendy reaction those wacky lemmings are currently upvoting!”
Getting to the core issue, of course we’re sick of AI, and have a negative opinion of it! It’s being forced into every product, whether it makes sense or not. It’s literally taking developer jobs, then doing worse. It’s burning fossil fuels and VC money and then hallucinating nonsense, but still it’s being jammed down our throats when the vast majority of us see no use-case or benefit from it. But feel free to roll your eyes at those acknowledging the truth…
it’s literally making its users nuts, or exacerbating their existing mental illness. not hyperbole, according to psychologists. and this isn’t conjecture:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202507/can-ai-chatbots-worsen-psychosis-and-cause-delusions
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
https://futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health
https://archive.is/Tv4Rr
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-psychosis-antichrist-aliens
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10686326/
https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/lifestyles/2025/06/29/when-the-machine-takes-over-the-mind-ais-terrifying-dark-side/
https://bytefeed.ai/psychosis/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-induced-psychosis-a-growing-concern-in-mental-health/
https://www.papsychotherapy.org/blog/when-the-chatbot-becomes-the-crisis-understanding-ai-induced-psychosis)
Are you honestly claiming a shitpost is gaslighting?
What a world we live in.
It’s just a joke bro.
<.< The person I replied to was joking? Because it definitely doesn’t come off that way.
I was talking about how shitposting on reddit became a cesspool because people started to post actual shit takes and then claim “it’s just a joke bro” when called out on it. I’m starting to see the same thing here in Lemmy; this post being an example. I’d rather this community didn’t get overrun by chuds.
Yup. it is a shitpost, so when people show up to defend the obviously damaging tech, that seems… tonedeaf lol.
imagine someone posted ‘child molesters bad’ and thousands of people agreed… but then there’s this one person who’s like “well, aktually…” you’re on point, if we keep letting the chuds control the narrative it’ll be a chud bar in no time.