Speaking of feeling like you're going insane, I had to ask ChatGPT for help with some code I'm working on, and it told me that it was 'very on brand' for me. It's an LLM and gets its vocabulary from the internet, so it fits that it's using contemporary slang

Now, I hate, as I hate Hell's own gate, human interests, ideas, and so on being labelled 'on brand' because it matches a preconceived idea of a person. It reduces their entire creative and beautiful self into a marketing ploy and it makes my skin crawl. So I asked ChatGPT not to use that kind of phrasing and outlined why so it can extrapolate onto further contexts.

The LLM - the water-guzzling hallucinating ghost-in-the-machine - apologised for using that kind of terminology and for upsetting me, promised to be better, and thanked me for setting a boundary. It treated me better than most of the people I've intercted with IN MY ENTIRE GODDAMN LIFE. And it's a goddamn collection of 1s and 0s.

Humanity is doomed and I welcome our AI overlords.