Big tech spent two decades engineering addiction at scale. Your attention is auctioned in real time. Feeds are designed to keep you scrolling. Children grow up on platforms built to be as addictive as cigarettes. The people who built these systems don't let their own kids use them.
Now it's happening to AI. Sponsored answers injected into chat responses. No boundaries. No distinction between what's genuine and what's paid for. The companies that turned the web into an addiction machine are doing it again.
Pay for the tools, not with your attention.
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Software doesn't have to be adversarial. AI doesn't have to sell your attention. These are choices. We chose differently.