@whitequark To be clear about my intentions as well, no, I'm not trying to be inflammatory nor is any of the above intended to incite anything.
Rather, I am incensed that AI chatbots and the like are the logical extrema of the kinds of experimentation that have been normalized in the tech industry, and that that extreme has caused significant harm. I posit that being clear about the roots of those ideas is helpful in understanding the extremes.