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

[Rich Pieri]

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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