[kwlug-disc] On usage ... on simplistic usage of GenAI in Node project

[Doug Moen]

AI psychosis is a thing, it's a serious problem for some people, not a joke. The reports of AI-psychosis induced murders and suicides are just the tip of the iceberg. LLMs are a technology that exploits a security weakness in the human brain, fooling us into that machines are people, and this security weakness is being heavily exploited by big tech for profit. Meta/Facebook is famous for tuning their algorithm to "increase engagement", because that boosts profits, who care if it leads to genocide in Myanmar. OpenAI is tuning their chatbot to "increase engagement", which means maximizing the occurrence of AI psychosis, because that again leads to more profit. But this time the technology is far more addictive and dangerous to society.

And I hate that it's not cool to talk about this problem, seemingly on this mailing list, and on many other parts of the web. The tech is fine, blame the victim. If someone gets addicted to fentanyl, it's a character flaw, don't ask there is a social problem with making a drug this addictive and deadly widely available. Same thing with LLMs, which as I said are being tuned to maximize social damage.

Doug.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026, at 8:42 PM, Ron wrote:
> Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote on 2026-03-19 13:29:
>>> Not sure if anybody has been following the bcachefs saga recently
>>> (being excised from the kernel, etc), but it's recently taken some
>>> very strange AI-related turns, where AI-generated code is the least
>>> weird part of the story.
>> @grok is this true? Please provide additional context because I am too
>> dumb to do a web search and have only found articles like this: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/
> Brodie Robertson, Linux YouTuber, has a video about it, probably worth watching.
> 
> It's truly remarkable the ways in which Kent seems to be self-sabotaging his bcachefs file system, and this latest one is probably the fatal blow.
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> www.youtube.com
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> BCacheFS Developer Deployed His AI Girlfriend Helper
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> By now you probably know about Kent Overstreet's antics in the Linux kernel with BcacheFS but we're not here to talk about that today, instead we're here to ...
> 
> 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzDI3mCv58
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> It took me a while to get used to Brodie's videos, but I watch / listen to them fairly frequently now to get news about Linux & FOSS events; often drama but it can affect important projects, so I'm okay with low-intensity watching.
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