The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances

A critical essay arguing that LLMs will primarily be deployed to frustrate customers, diffuse corporate accountability, and create new forms of manipulation. Key concerns include: LLM-staffed customer service designed to make people give up, an arms race between consumer and corporate AI agents in 'agentic commerce', algorithmic bias encoding social discrimination while obscuring responsibility, and a future where everyone pays AI companies to manage the drudgery those same companies created. The author uses vivid examples of real harm (wrongful imprisonment via facial recognition, police confrontations from misidentified snacks) to illustrate how ML systems diffuse responsibility across complex sociotechnical chains, making individual accountability nearly impossible.