What we can do as technologists is establish clear norms around information junk food for our children and close acquaintances, and influence others to do the same.
It's not going to happen overnight -- as with many such things, I expect it'll take decades of mistakes followed by decades of repairing them. What we've learned from other such mistakes is that saying "feel bad about the dumb thing" ("be worried") is less effective than "here's a smart thing you can do instead".
I blame all the background stress and I think it’s a more important factor.
Until the models are diluted to serve the true purpose of the thoughtcontrol already in fully effect in non-AI media, they're simply better for humanity.
[1]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/20250...
As we all know, the longer the context, the worse the reply. I strongly recommend you delete your context frequently and never stay in one chat.
What I'm talking about is using fresh chat for questions about the world, often political questions. Grab statistics on something and walk through major arguments for and against an idea.
If you think ChatGPT is providing worse answers than X.com and reddit.com for political questions, quite frankly, you've never used it before.
Try it out. Go to reddit.com/r/politics and find a +5,000 comment about something, or go to x.com and find the latest elon conspiracy, and run it by ChatGPT 5-thinking-high.
I guarantee you ChatGPT will provide something far more intellectual, grounded, sourced and fair than what you're seeing elsewhere.
In my years of use and thousands and thousands of chat uses, I have literally never seen chatGPT provide a radical answer to a political question without me forcing it, heavy-handedly, to do so.