AI is becoming the opium of the people.

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence 06/02/26, 11:38 PM News

Summary

A critical perspective on AI as a tool for creating dependency and renting cognitive abilities through subscriptions.

First, they make everyone dependent on it. They ensure that students can no longer write without it. They ensure that workers can no longer think without it. They ensure that companies can no longer function without it. They ensure that creative people can no longer produce anything without it. Once the dependency is complete, you raise the prices for the tokens. That is the business model that no one wants to say out loud. Not intelligence as liberation, but intelligence as dependence on subscriptions. It’s not primarily about replacing people with AI. People are renting back their own cognitive abilities, one token at a time.

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