Acute Narcissistic Intimacy Delusion Highlight

Sometimes it feels as though the only people who ‘use’ generative AI correctly are the American Right: they reimagine their leader as a muscular, heroic, demigod — and they find a sense of community by sharing these images (even if they are fascist slop). While others have private, unmoderated experiences with a probabilistic sentence-generator and get lost in narcissistic delusions of intimacy. Both things are bad, but the first instrumentalises the fabrication machine for propaganda, while the latter reinforces the idea individuals should save their most vulnerable selves for those very same machines.