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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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This only demonstrates how easily manipulated very many people are.
That has always been the case. Look at any angle Trump voter.
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.
Nice try, chatgpt.
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.
Tbf the people who fall for this are morons, but that doesn't mean they deserve to be fucked over
I don’t know that they always are. It’s easy from our nerd bubble to dismiss AI and LLMs because we understand their limitations and how they work to an extent.
We shouldn’t look down on anyone who takes the advertising and idea that these are “intelligence” at face value. The disclaimers that say that the intelligence is fallible, just like us, are never as strongly worded as they should be. If the AI companies made things clearer, they would be de-hyping their products.
I dunno, this whole thing is unprecedented. And the hype around it all, taken at face value, is irresponsible and misleading.
All people.
All is very many.
Yes, I can't stress how terrifying this is. Still all people.