Welcome to Cognitive Capitalism

https://defragzone.substack.com/p/welcome-to-cognitive-capitalism

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Comments

Cheer2171•4mo ago

This article is ChatGPT generated, it has all the obvious tells, with a little editing and personal flair in spurts.

Ironic for an anti ChatGPT post.

frag•4mo ago

You are very wrong. I polish my non-native english with Ollama and deepseek. Content is my own. Like on my podcast (datascienceathome.com) that exists way before GPT was even a name.

OgsyedIE•4mo ago

If the writing style exhibited here where each paragraph has a different variation of the GPT's "a but b" standby such as "It's a, but this time, b.", "Nothing says a like b." and "This isn't speculation, it's a, but b." really is your organic writing style going back to the 2010s, you should write an article about being the guy that naturally wrote in GPT voice, all the time, before GPT was a thing.

There is a huge profit opportunity in marketing yourself as a unique example for linguists to pin down and dissect.

frag•4mo ago

Thank you for noticing! I’ll keep writing my thoughts and express them in clearer English with the tools I (we) currently have. One day, when Italian becomes a global lingua franca, I’ll wow you even more with my fluency :D

Thanks for reading!

Cheer2171•4mo ago

Deepseek was trained on ChatGPT outputs, so yes, their writing style is running throughout the post you claim to be the author of (I almost said your writing style, which it is not)

Share the original in Italian and your prompt. Because my suspicion is that you had a half baked idea and the LLMs did all the rest.

frag•4mo ago

who are you? police? lol not sharing my notes. If you wanna read, cool. If you don't, cooler.

Cheer2171•4mo ago

Cool, if I wanted a shitty LLM generated essay on this topic I would have just queried the model myself. You think you are bringing anything of value to the work? Have a nice life as a copy paste machine.

Beestie•4mo ago

The syntax kind of does mimic the rhythm of AI generated text but the ideas and flow appear original to me. I thought it was a good article and appreciate the points you make which I would not have otherwise known about.

I also think it bears pointing out that you chose not to refer readers to your podcast which is the exact opposite of what an AI bot would have done.

kelseyfrog•4mo ago

> It’s not just an AI assistant anymore — it’s your new 24/7 digital roommate that “works for you overnight” to deliver personalized morning briefs.

"It's not just X, it's Y" is an obvious LLM sign. It doesn't read as natural English.

yetihehe•4mo ago

Reads pretty natural for a Pole. I would probably write something like this myself if I was writing articles.

CompoundEyes•4mo ago

I do think they’d be better focusing Pulse on business users. Connecting information in a workplace for those with ChatGPT enterprise in this way would be welcome. If I can get notifications that span all the various information sources, infer urgency, and overnight patterns of activity of a distributed team that could have value. With zero retention policies and control over / opt in to what can be connected it’s not as invasive. I do understand the point made that it could be used to evaluate you too by someone with your analytics of time spent etc.

pbronez•4mo ago

Yes, BUT, I want very strong guarantees that any such agents are loyal to me, the enterprise customer, first and foremost.

If anything, companies have MORE to lose than individuals here. If ChatGPT can anticipate your corporate decisions, then it can front run you and steal your whole business.

This absolutely happens:

- Amazon watches for successful third party products, then releases clones under their “Amazon Basics” brand and crushes the original.

- Robinhood makes most of their money selling real-time activity data to market makers, ensuring that big financial firms win over retail investors every time.

If OpenAI manages to do this in the general case… well then the valuations start to make a lot more sense.

CompoundEyes•4mo ago

That’s a great point. Insider trading as well.

karmakaze•4mo ago

When I saw the story for Pulse[0], the first thing that came to mind was 'stickiness' of the platform--AI boy/girlfriends--could go sideways quick.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375477

> Introducing ChatGPT Pulse - Now ChatGPT can start the conversation

e40•4mo ago

Good article. It articulates well were a lot of us think this is going. It is alarming to me how little people care about privacy.

Nevermark•4mo ago

I think they care.

But it is overwhelming problem for most people. How to navigate the basic things people do, and not be surveilled? Be manipulated by adds that are too spot on?

They hate it.

But they already have enough stuff to deal with. Getting pure with the apps and sites isn’t where they want to spend time or personal social capital.

It is like asking fish to get out of the dirty sea.

bigbadfeline•4mo ago

As Nevermark mentioned, the vast majority of people don't have the resources needed to protect their privacy via individual actions. In other words, without institutional support there will be no privacy.

With regard to the original article, it's well written as is another one by the same author: "How They Control You" [1]

The two topics are tightly connected when you consider the media angle. I would encourage the author to write about the two issues together from that angle.

[1] https://defragzone.substack.com/p/how-they-control-you