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AI & addictive patterns

2026-02-03 17:17:48.238146+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

From Viss @Viss@mastodon.social's thread about ClawdBot/MoltBot/OpenClaw that observes:

people are attaching this shit to their desktops and phones and their lives and somehow getting pearl-clutchy and surprised when it straps itself with nuclear warheads, dives into their bank accounts and detonates itself

and

i need to go look up that big "EA got sued because it got kids addicted to gambling" lawsuit because im pretty sure this is the same thing but for vibecoders

which then observes that:

oh my god, its the same fucking thing

With a link to Trulaw: EA Games Lawsuit for Video Game Addiction.

And, yes, it is exactly this, and, as further asserted in the thread, I strongly believe that it's both deliberate, and that evidence of that is the whole kerfluffle around ChatGPT 5 and how when they dialed down the sycophancy people revolted.

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