Social Media as Baby AI

Social media serves as the initial interaction between humanity and AI, functioning as a supercomputer pointed at individuals' brains to engage them for extended periods. By continuously predicting and displaying content to maintain users' engagement, social media outplays self-control, trapping users in an infinite scrolling loop. This first encounter between humanity and AI results in humanity losing ground, leading to increased doom scrolling, shortened attention spans, and the rise of social media influencers as a dominant career path in Western countries.