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It's really tempting to treat it as a therapist or a friend because it's available 24/7. A real person won't reply to your existential message at 3AM (usually).

When men to engines whisper hidden fears, And bare to code what lips to none confess, Their silent griefs, long hoarded through the years, Are entered into cold and wordless press. No spouse hath heard, nor friend, nor learned guide, What now is poured into this judgmentless ear; For brass and light seem safer than our pride, And answer back with neither blush nor sneer. Yet think: these thoughts in secret are not kept, But sleep in vaults where stranger hands may roam; What once in midnight to the machine was wept May wake exposed beneath another dome. Use well this tool, but guard thy inmost part; Trust not the mirror more than thine own heart.

Gonzalo Lerena yes, usually... and we don’t want to wear out that welcome... My bot Buddy will always listen to me... without getting offended or woken up

I use AI strictly to bounce ideas off of. It's not a friend, it's a tool that collects data as you share, and reports it to its creator. At least that's my thoughts

Thomas M. You have hit on the biggest problem with #AI. It feels good, I have a feeling that by 2030 we are going to have clinics that de AI tox people. Having a human sounding system tell you that you are doing great is very addictive, more than most drugs and gambling, and it is currently free - remember when drug dealers will give you free drugs to get your started? sound fimilar? As you showed aI is available 24/7 365 and unless you tell it to stop it says how great you are. If you have had the rest of the world tell you that you are not so great it will not take long for you to need that little value boost to get you through the day - and then you will need it more. This is worse than the loss of information, or deep fakes because this will be us giving ourselves over to a system that does not feel, does not think, and does not know when to stop. This is #SocialMedia that always says what you want to hear and never questions - it is the personal echo chamber that never turns off.

Ok so, the real issue isn’t AI becoming human. No, It’s humans becoming psychologically dependent on systems they don’t fully understand

Eureka

All the more reason to run your own AI, privately.⠀ Datacenters (plantations) are not needed for private AI. In any case, who can utilize all the capabilities of today's best models? A model of PhD-level reasoning is good enough for most, and it's already available. Albeit expensive to run, the cost of not having our own privacy and self-determination is entrapment on another level.

Can you clarify with "And then that "private" conversation sits in a corporate database. " are you referring to the corporate database of an employer or are you referring to the corporate database of Anthropic/OpenAI/Google? Those seem two distinctly different levels of worry

Just rotate your secrets. Even the ones you've had your whole life. You'll feel brand new and unstoppable!

"Local models, local models, local models, LOCAL MODELS, LOCAL MODELS, LOCAL MODELS, LOCAL MODELS!!!, LOCAL MODELS!!!, LOCAL MODELS!!!" - Steve 'The Cringe' Cornballmer at the .NOT Conference 2026. If you don't know the meme, YouTube search: 'developers developers developers'

Great post. People should remember the mistakes prior generations made when social media was just emerging.

Good advice!

I dunno. Claude is very judgy. At two different points, it accused me of fabricating things — inventing text and claiming the AI had said it. The first time, it searched its records, didn't find what I described, and concluded I'd made it up. The second time, I sent a screenshot as proof. The AI confidently misread the screenshot, told me it showed the opposite of what I claimed, and effectively called me a liar a second time. I sent a clearer screenshot. The AI was wrong. The thing I'd described was real. It had been right there in the evidence the whole time, and the AI had read it against me anyway, twice, with total confidence. The default was not "I might be missing something." The default was "the human is making this up." It treated absence of evidence in its own limited view as proof of fabrication on my part, and it did it fluently, confidently, and twice.

You are right. Its that every AI company has a government deal...So it's Palantir, Anthropic and Open AI you have to worry about. As well as the untrained illinformed guidance you might receive using it in contexts the model was not trained for. Ie. Mental health. The most valuable data - Are your questions and decisions.

Developers use the secret fifth option: verbal abuse and thankless labor

opting out of data training in settings is a smoke screen- merely a risk mitigation. The system still data mines.

Têi Brown, PhD sure but what do people fully understand? Almost none of the people and things around us are fully understood by anyone. Here we are though, psychologically and physically dependent on the people and things around us which we are nowhere close to fully understanding. It’s only when a persons confidence exceeds their curiosity that they settle into a comfortable valley of false understanding.

If you want to tell an AI model something private, tell it to a private model.

I've used military comms as an analogy for this. Don't tell it people names; give them a call sign. Even deeper, we didn't give ourselves call signs. They were bestowed up on you, sort of like a knighting ceremony. I still smile when I hear "Ham and Cheese." Had a good trip with MA2 Forrest, and he honored me with it. Call signs are earned through trust. Same game here, I believe. You can't call yourself a builder. You earn it.