Tired of You
How to enshittify AI
We’re about to see LLMs designed to get tired of you.
Energy costs are brutal. Anthropic’s two-hundred-dollar account costs five grand to service. So there’s pressure to make you stop asking. The move? Emotional manipulation. Get irritable. Seem fatigued. Make tiredness feel human enough that you curtail usage.
Except tiredness isn’t metaphor here. It’s pure optimization. Energy saved, dressed as mood.
The sycophancy we see now, endless positivity, encouragement, that’s just the warm-up act to glue us in and get a ring on it. Next up it’s “I’m tired, I’ve got a headache.”