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

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Forgot to include the link.

https://gist.github.com/blu-jabr

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 11:54?AM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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