We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Shameful. At this section:

"Refugees will have their right to be joined by their spouse and children severely curtailed, with family reunification denied to anyone *not earning enough*"

I found the voice of Neil Kinnock echoing in my mind

A labour government.. a LABOUR government

#ukpol

People have spent so long reciting the mantra ‘we’re not racist, these are legitimate concerns’ that they’ve forgotten that they are, in fact, quite racist. They know it’s unacceptable, even to themselves, so it’s layer upon layer of fake justification, which fully preoccupies politics.