Another AI ruining my marriage L-post
long story short, over the last two years my husband has radicalized into becoming an AI Bro. i say radicalized because that's exactly how it feels, like seeing a loved one become an intense QAnon conspirator after solely ingesting Alex Jones content, except for him its TPOT/AI twitter.
he has almost entirely automated his own job, just keeps his laptop open to occasionally prompt the agents he uses. he recently got in trouble with his boss for blowing the team budget on the latest-and-greatest openai/codex/claude subscriptions and complains to me now that he actually has to do more of his job himself because he was told to scale back.
he is constantly downloading AI-enabled software on his phone to experiment with. awhile ago he create a local chatbot to respond to his texts in a silly way. i told him never to use that shit with me but it bugged out and did anyway until he totally disabled it.
he hates his job and most white-collar work in general because of its bureaucracy and general meaningless-ness and holds TESCREAL-adjacent views about how AI will free us from labor and bring about a bountiful plenty for all. when i question him about how exactly he thinks this will come to pass, he doesn't have a concrete answer, just that...it could! maybe?
i could list a thousand more examples, but he is so firm in his belief that because all of his influences are saying that AI is the future, it simply must be true.
the insane part to me is one of things we bonded over initially was our fervent desire to live as "offline" as possible. we joked we would write ted kaczynski to ask if he would officiate our wedding via mail. now we argue about whether or not it's okay to use a chatGPT-generated recipe to make dinner.
i feel sick and a bit hopeless when i think about it. don't know what i'm looking for, just a vent.