Users often think that they are training their algorithm to show them the types of content they enjoy, but fail to recognise that this process is highly extractive of them — that the platforms are, in fact, training and habituating them.

The Ends of AI: Sycophancy and Psychosis, Mél Hogan, 2026

Social media platforms have, for decades, been grooming young white men to embrace the message core to tech bro culture: that societal progress is a product of technological advancement, that tech CEOs are the smartest people on the planet, and, more importantly, to also see themselves as future bosses rather than the much more likely scenario of remaining precarious tech workers (if employed at all).

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