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date: 2026-05-12 13:00
title: Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
link: https://www.404media.co/your-ai-use-is-breaking-my-brain/
cited: 404 Media
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> To browse the internet today, to consume any sort of content at all, is to be bombarded with AI of all sorts. People think things that are fake are real, things that are real are fake. Much [_has been written about "AI psychosis_](https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/)," the nonspecific, nonscientific diagnosis given to people who have lost themselves to AI. [_Less has been said_](https://www.vice.com/en/article/april-fools-day-deepfakes-pope-trump-arrest-gpt/?ref=404media.co) about the cognitive load of what other people's AI use is doing to the rest of us, and the insidious nature of having to navigate an internet and a world where lazy AI has infiltrated everything.