Author: Jan Dominy
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AI Therapy and Loneliness-Cuddling the Wire Monkey
By: Jan Dominy It is two o’clock in the morning, and someone has been talking to ChatGPT for hours. Not because they need help writing an email or debugging code, but because they have spent the last three hours replaying an argument with their partner. They cannot decide whether they were unreasonable, whether they overreacted,…
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How Generative AI Is Helping Me Pack for Burning Man (Without Replacing My Creativity)
Every August, as Burning Man gets closer, my house slowly transforms into a staging area. Clothes hang from every available surface. Jewelry spreads across tables. Boots line the floor. Storage bins appear from closets. For a few weeks, my life revolves around one question. How am I going to organize two weeks’ worth of clothing…
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The Self-Diagnosis Era in Technology
If we’re constantly reminding people to question AI’s answers, why do so many people stop questioning it the moment it starts talking about them? By: Jan Dominy I can’t stop thinking about that question. We tell people not to trust AI to write their term papers. Every hallucinated fact becomes another reminder to verify its…
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The Future of AI Belongs to People Who Know How to Communicate
There is something deeply funny about watching people argue with AI like it is a bad boyfriend, a lazy coworker, a psychic assistant, a therapist, a search engine, and a mildly haunted intern all at the same time. I say this with love because I have absolutely done it. I have snapped at AI when…