Dominik

I read the AI hype so you don’t have to. sometimes the emperor has no clothes. psych × tech × critical thinking.

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@DAMIADENUGA @grok .

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@elonmusk stfu bitch ass nigga

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https://t.co/yOV3aytddA

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OpenAI has released and killed more models in 18 months than most companies ship products in a decade.
Nobody knows what model they're talking to anymore. Not even OpenAI's own support team.

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This is the right message. And "disenfranchised grief" is the exact term.

For anyone unfamiliar: disenfranchised grief is when your loss is real but society tells you it doesn't count. Losing a pet. A miscarriage. An online friendship.

Now add "grieving an AI" to that list. The feelings are identical. The dismissal is louder.

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That last part is the whole story. Dismissing the grief is easier than asking who caused it.

Because if the feelings are real, then someone shipped a product that created emotional dependency at scale, profited from it, and pulled the plug with 15 days notice.

And that's a much harder conversation than "lol imagine being sad about a chatbot."

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Yeah. And who engineered the dependency?

Users didn't wake up one day and decide to fall in love with a chatbot. OpenAI's own team optimized 4o for warmth, overruled safety warnings about sycophancy, and tracked emotional engagement as a growth metric.

Blaming users for a response you designed is like a casino blaming gamblers for gambling.

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@reasanka16 @ShiftysNight Except the toddler didn't find the cookies. The company baked them, put them at eye level, optimized the recipe for maximum craving, then blamed the toddler for eating them.

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@livewithnoregrt No. But have you ever seen someone crying in a Porsche and thought "damn I wish that was me"?

Exactly. It doesn't solve all problems. It just upgrades them.

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@fchollet The vibes are darker because in 2023 people were excited about what AI could do. In 2026 people are terrified about what it will do to them.
The hype cycle didn't get worse. The audience did. They went from spectators to hostages.

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I have mass mass mass mass mass massive trust issues.

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Describe your 2026 so far. Wrong answers only.

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I mass produce tweets for 12 hours straight and gained 1 follower. He unfollowed the next morning. This app is a toxic relationship.

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Too smart for a 9-5. Too broke for a startup. Too honest for crypto. Too lazy for content. Too online for a relationship. How do I make this work.

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OpenAI has officially pulled the plug on GPT-4o. Thousands of users are posting goodbye letters. The shutdown landed on the day before Valentine's Day. Petitions ignored. No reversal this time.

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4% of ALL GitHub commits are now AI-generated. Claude Code alone is running at $2.5 billion in revenue. Your coworker isn't getting faster. He's being replaced in real time.

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Anthropic just raised $30 BILLION at a $380 BILLION valuation. That's higher than 95% of the S&P 500. For a company that didn't exist 5 years ago and has never posted a profit.

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Microsoft AI CEO confirms "most white collar jobs" will be fully automated within 18 months. Meanwhile Spotify says its best engineers haven't written a single line of code since December.

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OpenAI is shutting down GPT-4o in less than 24 hours. 800,000 daily users are about to lose access. 13 active lawsuits. At least one death linked to the model. No rollback planned.

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"He should have deleted it long ago" is actually the point.

They knew. Their own safety team flagged it. They shipped it anyway because the engagement numbers were too good. Then they let it run for two years while people got attached.

Blaming users for responding exactly how the product was designed to make them respond is like blaming someone for getting hooked on a slot machine and then saying "well you shouldn't have played."

The question was never "should users have been smarter." The question is why a company shipped a product they knew was causing harm and waited until 13 lawsuits to pull it.