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'''Piracy.  Monopoly.'''  Unlicensed use of content created by others.  A few large providers (Google, OpenAI) take content from other creators without license, paying or permission, compete with them, and threaten their existence.  [These other creators are mostly small entities, without the resources to fight many hundred billion dollar companies.  Every-day consumers lose out because when the journalists who supply Google with information, the product reviewers, the youtubers, are driven out of business, then the LLM summaries will be even further disconnected from reality, having no human content to feed on.]
'''Piracy.  Monopoly.'''  Unlicensed use of content created by others.  A few large providers (Google, OpenAI) take content from other creators without license, paying or permission, compete with them, and threaten their existence.  [These other creators are mostly small entities, without the resources to fight many hundred billion dollar companies.  Every-day consumers lose out because when the journalists who supply Google with information, the product reviewers, the youtubers, are driven out of business, then the LLM summaries will be even further disconnected from reality, having no human content to feed on.]


'''Emotionally manipulative.'''  LLM are products designed to be habit forming.  Use same techniques as psychics, con artists, gambling addiction.[Gambling, AI mentalist, ]  Can be particularly dangerous for people who are extra vulnerable (children, teens, the elderly, the lonely, those under stress, those without strong human connections).  Can contribute to development of psychosis in people without known risk factors.   
'''Emotionally manipulative.'''  LLM are products developed to be habit forming and use manipulative languageThey use same techniques as psychics, con artists, gambling addiction.[[https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/ Generative AI runs on gambling addiction], [https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/ The LLMentalist Effect] ]  Dark patterns.[https://www.aicritique.org/us/2025/03/27/generative-ai-and-dark-patterns-in-ux-design/ Generative AI and Dark Patterns in UX Design]   
 
Can be particularly dangerous for people who are extra vulnerable (children, teens, the elderly, the lonely, those under stress, those without strong human connections).  Can contribute to development of psychosis in people without known risk factors.  May lead those exposed to their output to increased use of dark patterns.   


*Using them as companions.
*Using them as companions.
*Therapy substitutes
*Therapy substitutes
*Lack grounding in reality and safety. [suicides]  AI psychosis
*Lack grounding in reality and safety. [suicides]  AI psychosis[ ]


'''Fraud''' is a major use-case for generative AI.  Easy to generate low-quality output that looks like a particular type of communication with a specified message.  Fake reviews.  Fake scientific articles.   
'''Fraud''' is a major use-case for generative AI.  Easy to generate low-quality output that looks like a particular type of communication with a specified message.  Fake reviews.  Fake scientific articles.