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"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."

Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.

The thing that people really need to understand is that the "product" that chatGPT and other "AI" chatbots create is "more interactions with chatGPT." Everything it does is engineered with that one end in mind. Think about how it's billed, and you'll see that's true, and why it's true. What do "pro" subscriptions give you? More inquiries, faster answers, etc. So its entire thing is "getting you to ask it more things, more often."

Will it say "I don't know?" No. You won't ask it things if it answers that. This is why hallucinations are built in, and cannot ever be eliminated.

These programs are machines meant to generate more inquiries, which means they will generate dependence in order to generate them.

This is the same thing as people leaving bad situations or changing their POV. Don't go "yeah you should have known better". We need to learn the correct way to address this.

Y'know how we code-switch to talk to conservatives or whatever to say the things they wanna hear to get them to change their minds about something? Same thing

Because if you directly attack AI to their faces, it reinforces what they already believe, which is AI is right and everyone else is wrong. (Same thing happens when you attack religion to the hyperreligious, they go "oh you're reinforcing my beliefs that outsiders are wrong")

I don't have any advice on how, but the more angry and incredulous we get, the more we tell them its stealing or hurting the environment, the less they care what we think. Generally people don't care about the "big picture". They care about personally impactful stuff. They don't care that they're more likely to get dementia or more likely to die sooner that's still nebulous.

Try asking what they would do if their phone was broken. If they had no access to AI. Ask them what 2+2 is and have them use their fingers. If they're people you know personally have them shut off their phone and do sudoku or word searches. Have them read physical books. The longer they go without the crutch of AI the better it will be.

And remember:

-Spn had casual representation of men kissing men with Crowley and Bobby pretty early on, and they don’t make it into a massive “ha! Gayyyy!” Joke despite the fact this was the 2000s when that was the main type of humour.

-Casual gay rep with the Sam and Dean cosplayers, and the Dean and Cas actresses in “Fanfiction”, again both of these examples are actually incredibly sweet.

-Sam doesn’t bat an eyelid when deans siren is a man even before the siren mentions what Dean really wanted was a brother

-Gabriel flirting with just about everything that moves

-Charlie. Which has gotta be one of the best queer women I’ve seen on screen representation wise.

-Godstiel killing a homophobic pastor for spreading the wrong message.

-Dean actually being pretty proud of the fact he thought a gay guy had flirted with him to the point that he’s visibly saddened when he finds out it was a ruse.

-“a study in werewolf transgenderism”

-Cas taking the form of a man AND the form of a woman.