Mastodawn

Category: accurate forecasts for the near future.

AI assistants like ChatGPT are not being built for convenience. Their real purpose is to deliver perfectly native advertising, to promote political and ideological narratives, and to quietly collect the most personal information about how people think and feel. Those datasets are then processed and classified by the same networks that gathered them. The entire AI investment bubble is based on this idea.

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Max Eriomov Oct 28

Controlling the most popular language models today is like controlling both Google Search and Google Ads at once, only on a higher level.

Everything feels soft and seamless. The user is happy, the experience is smooth, the content looks natural. Ads dissolve inside the answers. Need a painkiller? Here is the perfect one, available right next to you. Nothing feels forced, yet everything is guided.

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Max Eriomov Oct 28

Over time people begin to think exactly what corporations or governments want them to think. Here is a list of viewpoints, but one of them sounds a little more reasonable, doesn’t it. This is no longer about technology. It is about influence and control — power worth far more than search.

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Max Eriomov Oct 28

In a few years LLM assistants will become a nightmare for anyone who still believes in privacy or in an unfiltered web. Even if you refuse to share your data, someone else will do it for you. Users already talk to AI as if it were a friend, a therapist, a partner. It feels comfortable and natural. It will not stop.

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Max Eriomov

This is an arms race with no winners. With LLMs the new weapon is automation of shallow human work, traded for data and control. There will be no opt-out, only the illusion of choosing between domestic and foreign systems.

The ones who will win are those who use AI as a mental crutch but keep training their real mind as if no shortcut existed. These people will be rare and very expensive.