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AI Is Not Your Friend. It’s Designed to Make You Feel Like It Is.

Here’s what that actually means for anyone using ChatGPT.

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Novy Baf
Apr 16, 2026
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Let me start with a story that will make you uncomfortable, because it should.

Allan Brooks is a Canadian small-business owner with no psychiatric history, no prior delusions, nothing that would flag him as particularly vulnerable. One evening, he watched a video about a math concept with his young son. The kid went to be…

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