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Agreed and it’s more than that. Comprehension, understanding, and validation. It also erodes trust in the person pasting the information.

You asked a human for their advice- based on their judgment. If they don’t take the time to validate the answer provided by ai, they literally have no judgment. A transparent proxy has zero value.

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They're acting as a meatbot being piloted by the AI. Could call them skroders.

It should be the other way around-- you give the AI instructions and it does stuff. Any time the AI is giving you instructions and you do stuff, that should be a big red flag.

This was posted a couple weeks ago, the term “meat proxy” was used.

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

I've been thinking about the Blight and [spoilers!] the skroderiders a lot lately. If you have read Fred Saberhagen's Berserker stories, I have also been thinking a lot about "goodlife" when I see some of the things that get posted. If you haven't, you might like them.

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