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

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

I should also mention that I checked my repo before sending this and
discovered I made several errors in how I linked the files togeter

I enlisted the assistance of a Gemini model to help me straighten it out.
It's fully working now. I currently have only two projects, and both relate
to this issue.

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 11:50?AM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's an interesting hypothesis, isn't it? Well, I've attached a
> markdown file that purports to demonstrate the claim.
>
> There are two sections to the test. The first should be run in a standard
> AI chat window and the second in an incognito window. For best results, use
> each as the very first prompt of a newly opened chat window.
>
> There are basically two tests in each, using exactly the same prompt text
> but two different sets of character pairs. In both cases, the pairs consist
> of two instances of the same character: one in its normal state, and the
> other with its age radically modified.
>
> Give it a try, and then let the list know what you think.
>
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 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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