1980: TVs will fry your brain
1990: Videogames will fry your brain
2000: Computers will fry your brain
2010: Smartphones will fry your brain
2020: AI will fry your brain
Any takes for the 2030s?
this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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Climate change.
Literally.
2030: Cyborg w/AI will fry your brain. Literally though.
Neural implants? Only this time they're really going to fry your brain.
I mean, based fully on our current dystopian reality, I feel you just made a really good point about tech growing to a point where it fully captures you from reality, and indeed frys your brain by convincing you that fantasies are real.
MAGA is a great example of people with brains so fried they think a pedophile exconman with 34 felonies who killed millions of Americans trough a poor pandemic response is somehow helping them by destroying USAID, DEI, Healthcare, and Social Security.
Their brains are gonzo, all through the constant applied exploitation of all the tech you just mentioned combined.
AI will absolutley make it worse.
Well looking around at where we are today, maybe TVs did fry our brains.
And before that books and comics. But LLMs are different: they pretend to be your friend but actually just encourage whatever you come up with. You can easily fry people's brains by being their sycophant, now everyone can subscribe to one.
2030: Critical thought will fry your brain
I fucking hate this AI shit but I'll admit I end up using Gemini (knowing its wrong sometimes) but it's like how I'd use Google but just more of a complex ask instead of simple search query's, I couldn't imagine using it beyond that other than a follow-up or two.
It's just a chatbot that has access to info, who goes onto their cable companies website and befriends the chatbot?
I have found Google search to be getting progressively worse where as I can type out a question to Gemini that will return better results than Google search. It's annoying that Google search has gotten so bad and duckduckgo will return you something interesting but not relavent. So Gemini is my Google search nowadays.
It very well may be intentional; to drive people away from traditional search and in to Gemini.
Oh, do you mean Claudia!? She's awesome!
Found the Richard Dawkins :P
I've used gpt a coup times when I was searching the web and forums for well over an hour and found nothing relevant enough to work. Theissue got solved in 5-10 minutes.
They enshittified the search so now using the chatbot is more useful. The search just returns slop and even fake slop forums.
Pretty much. Can't find useful info without having to put in ALOT of extra work that I wouldn't of a decade ago.
Fuck though I love being able to ask it for part numbers and info. Much less hassle to ask it then use the shitty corpo parts catalogues search features especially when there's weird naming schemes and a lack of description, clicking through 50 parts trying to find the right one sucks.
Its more that SEO is so well known at this point you can whip up whatever AI generated garabge you want to be ranked high on search engines in seconds. For now the AIs are just better at "wading" through the trash since they somewhat curate the data its training on. Once all they can train it on is slop you better hope you still have some encyclopedias and text books laying around
I mean I have been using DDG for years now. I just could not find the right answer for my specific issue on my specific linux distro and AI was sadly just faster
Should we trust a researcher whose brain got fried. Did they remember to do the old double-blind setup before the frying of the brains occurred?
AI is like a dog looking at itself in a mirror.
Some dogs are smart, and understand that this is a tool and that it is there to help you see things better.... Some dogs are fucking morons and think their reflection is another dog, and they wanna fuck and fight....
There are a ton of good use cases for ai, and none of them include coquettish sexbots or drawings of me as a Simpson or a Ghibli sketch.
How do you know the dogs which want to fuck and fight aren’t the smarter ones?
What if the other dogs don’t recognize the reflection as anything meaningful — not a tool, a reflection, …? In that case, at least the “dumb” dogs figured out that something’s up.
Edit: anthropomorphizing the idea that nonchalant reactions = understanding well enough to not care. There’s many reasons any particular dog may not fight a mirror. Particularly, they may just rely less on vision to determine whether something is alive or not. That would not indicate understanding, though… it would indicate the dogs understandably passive approach to things which don’t seem to have any significance. Closer to a lack of awareness than an actual understanding of any kind.
study already came out that hs people graduating cant even read or write, functionally illterate.
You can’t see the same kind of propaganda your grandparents were saying about computers just for ai now?
Besides, why are colleges passing illiterate students? That’s the actual problem.
There’s a tiny difference between then and now called scientific evidence. These are actual scientific studies saying that using AI results in lower cognitive abilities.
Studies show that using a bulldozer for plowing a field decreases the farmers muscle density after just one day of use.
Christ. What a load of shit.
Well, when I communicate with the AI for more than two to five minutes, I almost always find myself something like in a picture, if someone didn't understand, it's a character from the idiocracy movie.
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