Following the pro-"AI" crowd's writing is genuinely like watching a serious mental health episode unwind in slow motion
I'm so tired
(The post in question https://kerkour.com/anti-ai-psyop)
Edited: the post seems to be deleted now. Probably for the best for everybody involved.
When I started tracking these things my biggest concerns were how toxic the tech is for knowledge work, education, media, and the arts; the environment; the inevitable bubble; and how it makes everything it touches less reliable. I genuinely thought the concerns about the mental health of heavy chatbot users were overblown but it now looks to me to be a major and widespread issue
@baldur on the bright side, i have always wanted to be part of a psyop. one question: when can i start claiming my expenses?
Oct 14, 2026, 9:51 AM@baldur wtf, the site prevents using firefox reader mode by reloading if i try to enable it
@nen Honestly, probably doing you a favour by making it harder to read it
@baldur video games and D&D, on the other hand…
Maybe we should find a televangelist, connect it to a mom group and declare Claude the antichrist.
> Even better, you now own the software, hardware and docs produced by AI. It's compounding wealth,
sure I do own my car, too. I have a conceptional idea how it works.
that's about it.
I still need someone who helps me repair and maintain it.
@baldur its a cargo cult
@baldur "Let's use AI to build a world of 100% Open Technology. A decentralized world where rent-seekers and other parasites no longer have any power."
Rent-seeking is literally the stated aim of the AI companies. How does someone miss that?
@woe2you It boggles the mind.
@baldur Please take care of your mental health and don't engage too much in it.
@dmaccari I don’t use chatbots or agents and never have.
@baldur I meant with the pro AI writing.
@dmaccari Ah, yeah. That's actually a very good point. And, yeah, you're absolutely right to make it. 👍
@baldur This is an impressive collection of bad takes
Oct 14, 2026, 12:30 PM@baldur he deleted it haah
Oct 14, 2026, 1:07 PM@baldur that disappeared fast.
Oct 14, 2026, 1:10 PM@jzb @onepict Yeah. It went through a variety of scenarios, dismissing the fear of losing your job as unfounded, environmental concerns as overblown, that the commons is healthier than ever, before writing about how Iran or Russia are more likely to be behind the psyop than China, but coming to the conclusion that "Big IP" were "the biggest proponents of anti-AI rethoric" [sic].
It ended with "Don't listen to anybody over 35 about AI."
Oct 14, 2026, 1:44 PM@baldur @onepict that's some amazing mental gymnastics there.
Disappointing. I actually follow the same blog for similar reasons. Pity their RSS feed only offers a summary and not the entire post. I wonder if it's time to stop. I'm not sure if it's great for *my* mental health to be exposed to that sort of thing even more than I am already...
Oct 14, 2026, 1:58 PMOct 14, 2026, 1:53 PM
See? Proof that THEY do not want you to know, and will do EVERYTHING to SUPPRESS the truth™… 😱
