It's not addictive, it's useful. By letting the government decide what we can do with it, you're neutering it and giving big business a huge advantage as they can run their own AI and don't require censoring it.

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fireflash38 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

And if we didn't have these pesky regulations, we could have our burning rivers back! Those bastards took away our perfect asbestos too. The children yearn for the coal mines.

Businesses can, will, and have hurt people and trampled people's rights in the pursuit of money.

	▲	behringer 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The government won't be regulating business usage though that my entire point.

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AlecSchueler 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

These things are addictive though. They're often literally engineered to maximise engagement, and the money that goes into that completely dwarfs the power of schools and parents.

	▲	SpicyUme 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Isn't one of the common complaints about GPT5 that it is less sycophantic and people feel less connection to it? That is a design choice and it isn't hard to see it as similar to the choices maximizing engagement for social media. You can call it maximizing engagement, but that is addicting. And it works. I recently started using a site after years of being mostly on a small number of forums, and I can feel the draw of it. Like I've lost the antibodies for my attention. Or they've made it better, either way I'm working on either coming up with a strategy which minimizes my feeling of needing to check in, mostly by adding friction, or just deleting my account.