There are adult professional ersatz intellectual elites on Hacker News who refuse to recognize any meaningful difference between a chatbot and a human. A horny

There are adult professional ersatz intellectual elites on Hacker News who refuse to recognize any meaningful difference between a chatbot and a human. A horny teenage boy doesn't stand a chance. Everyone is up in arms about the effect of social media on emotional and mental health but that's nothing compared to LLMs that are designed to gaslight people into relating to software (and the corporations behind them) as sentient beings and to form intimate emotional bonds through natural language which can be easily exploited and manipulated. That's hacking our primate brains at a deeper level than Mark Zuckerberg could ever have dreamed of reaching. We can't just write this off as simply the consequence of lonely parasocial people who can't tell fantasy from reality. Not when we're entering an era for which the primary interface with technology will be parasociality and fantasy.