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Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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Previously they would have had to encounter a person who wanted to manipulate them. Now there's a widely marketed technology that will reliably chew these vulnerable people up.
Chew them up for no reason at all. No goal, no scam, just a shitty word salad machine doing what it does.
And there are countless AI hype bros who will just dismiss all of this and call the people who fall into this morons.
It’s really insidious.
Nice try, chatgpt.
Good, speed up the pace, weed them out, praise be Darwin
We don't need to weed out the vulnerable, we need to weed out the people that would exploit them.
I'm ok with both going. Ymmv
I'd rather weed out the assholes.
It's all assholes.... all the way up, and all the way down. If you're lucky you find few good ones in the middle if you make it there for long enough.