[Discuss] The Domesticated AI: A Manifesto for Digital Immunity

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

We are in the AI age. For me, AI has helped with some research, but you
have to be careful of the results.

Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unix
http://www.blu.org/

On Wed, May 6, 2026, 9:49?AM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 May 2026 23:55:41 -0500
> abreauj at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > This has completely unleashed my creative potential. I?m no longer
> > stuck in the weeds of formatting; I?m acting as a director. I've put
> > together a manifesto on this "Digital Immunity" approach?moving from
> > muzzling wolves to domesticating puppies.
>
> Bluntly, this sounds like marketing drivel to me. Every creative type I
> know -- authors, actors, artists, gamesmasters, you name it -- who has
> tried using a chatbot agrees that chatbots don't help their creativity.
> If anything, they find chatbots hinder their creativity.
>
> On Wed, 6 May 2026 04:47:24 -0400
> Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> > I think that intense periods of interaction with LLMs exploits a
> > flaw in human brains, to which people are variously vulnerable.
>
> Also this. Chatbots are designed to be sycophantic in order to "drive
> engagement" as their operators put it. Critics call it what it is:
> driving addictive behavior and dependency.
>
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