By Psychology Today
Publication Date: 2025-11-17 12:00:00
You don’t have to be a scientist to notice that we live in a time where shockingly bad ideas are ubiquitous.
The Internet has continued to push nonsense further than any technology before it, but something has changed in the last few months that means our evolved brains are no longer up to the challenge they now face.
Because previous generations never had machines that allowed instant compliance and endless confirmations at the push of a button, whereas today a single prompt allows validation with the ease of a vending machine. A half-formed idea gets neither a pause for thought nor a stern correction, but instead receives a warm nod and a barrage of supportive arguments from our AI assistants. And just like that, the silent echo chambers we used to create in our own heads were upgraded into something much more industrial and much more dangerous in the span of a few keystrokes.
Stop reading and test this yourself by asking your AI assistant for advice about a company that sells snow in…
