Peteranother successful guy in his 50s has been one-shotted by Claude. F in the chat for Mike Masnick, may his brain RIP. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Infoseepage@peter I have a client that age who is in corporate finance, who just loves playing around with AI. Two days ago, someone sent him an email with document "Your 2025 Social Security Data for Taxes.exe" attached to it. He downloaded it five times and clicked on it at least once. Remote access trojan that spent the last two days exflitrating his PC and its activities.
@peter These are guys who at one point DID KNOW BETTER and some combination of AI and Covid has just completely eroded their critical thinking and impulse control and now they are doing some of the stupidest shit I can imagine. They kick themselves after when you talk to them about it, but it doesn't save them in the moment.