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   Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 23:26:08 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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   Thinking about LLM-based "AI" chatbots as cognitohazards is apt. They are deceptive and subversive in an extremely subtle but systematic way. They warp your perception and cognition to make you _feel_ as if you're more capable while simultaneously degrading your skills.

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 23:26:10 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

     How many studies do researchers need to do before the threat of LLMs is taken seriously? This technology *might* have some useful niche applications, but widespread deployment will be a disaster for humanity.

     This shit is an existential hazard, and not in the way the AI companies love to talk about. It's not going to take over the world like Skynet, it's a cognitohazard that turns anyone that interacts with it into an idiot.

     https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

     Rich Felker repeated this.