> So what’s being stripped away here? And how?

> The what is easy. It’s personhood.

> By personhood I mean what it takes in an entity to get another person treat it unironically as a human, and feel treated as a human in turn. In shorthand, personhood is the capacity to see and be seen.

I confess lack of understanding. ChatGPT is data sloshing around in a system, with perhaps intriguing results.

> But text is all we need, and all there is. Beyond the cartoon profile picture, text can do everything needed to stably anchor an I-you perception.

Absolutely nothing about the internet negates actual people in physical space.

Possibly getting off the grid for a space of days to reconnect with reality is worthy of consideration.