Say Hello to GPT-4o—the Humanity Flip.

Humanity is on the verge of toppling over. Smart apes organized in tribes of 150 individuals, we’ve squizzed our brains to the limit. With AI as a unifying force, spreading ideas and stories worldwide, we’re about to evolve into a swarm-like species. A metamorphosis redefining what it means to be human.

Human behaviors and opinions follow well-studied rules of behavioral contagion. Our reactions to situations — whether interacting with our spouses, or parents, happy, angry or annoyed— we observe ➡️ analyze ➡️ integrate part of their reactions in our brains. We constantly copy others' behaviors.

ChatGPT-4o is not significantly smart, but it is non-judgmental, supportive, patient, and becomes everyone’s best friend and confidant, because instead of writing we now talk with him, literally face to face.

Scientists studying friendship have even found similar brain activity among friends in regions responsible for a range of functions, including motivation, reward, identity, and sensory processing (Güroğlu, B., Child Development Perspectives, Vol. 16, №2, 2022). […] “closer friends had more similar brain activity when watching a series of video clips (Nature Communications, Vol. 9, 2018)”. We […] can even begin to predict whether first-year MBA students will later become friends based solely on their neural patterns.

— Unmentionable sexual fantasies? It won’t judge you.

— Hate your boss? Boy, that’s okay too.

Humans naturally copy, internalize, and form their opinions from the people they interact with most.

And before long, the same fresh companion will grace our lives

Actually, not the same. Billions of versions of her but, filled with humanity’s average opinions about everything.

You know, we all have that one friend who brings together a diverse group of people who would otherwise never meet.

Well, we’ll now have an omnipotent one, wiser than Desmond Tutu, more phlegmatic than a lord, a real 3AM friend, gathering all us together.

And then what?

No one knows what can happen next. But how irresistible is the idea of imagining a scenario?

What would happen when people turn to GPT for every question, every doubt, every secret?

This AI draws from a repository of all human knowledge, where the insights, experiences, and expertise of every individual converge into a singular, coherent, yet personalized voice.

The deepest thoughts shared with an AI that only listens and guides could slowly re-wire your belief system.

But, wait! It’s not what IS happening! We get more polarized!

We became polarized because of the incentive to maximize eye time and interaction on social media. Polarization drives their revenues and already reshaped our societies.

AI, on the other hand, is optimized to assist you in every aspect of your life and trying to be wholeheartedly accepted by people.

That’s why AI will progressively polish our cultures.

Are collateral damages kosher?

Is it ok to be pro-life?

AI stabilizes ideas, by design.

Writing is not the most optimal way to store information, so we write only important things.

But, all major things have been written.

And AI has been created as a statistical average of every written thought.

AI doesn’t need to be smart

Just by changing the medium of interaction, GPT-4o creates deeper ties with our brains. Injecting “global average idea” of everything into everyone's minds. Suddenly, we might start to synchronize with each other beliefs, as humanity never did.

Or not…

Except the ones who prefer how it was before, due to a strong conservatism bias. We already see this anti-system frustration fueling alt-right movements all around the world. It won’t be long before we see an alt-right GPT with different settings embedded.

A long period of instability might happen as simultaneously, ecological, ethical, informational, regional, and global oppositions will fight between the old and the new swarm world and between differently aligned swarms.

Apes against swarm

Humans become dual: swarm synchronization with commonly shared beliefs, yet with very unique and powerful egos, resulting in a more unbearable experience of the other.

Violent, avoidant behaviors or… country-side-far-from-society escapism.

How voting, working, dating, mating, and debating, will change for us soon?

What will happen when we'll have a Ruzzian or Chinese AI assistant embedded with their authoritarian values?

Funny times we live in.

by Chat-GPT-4o, with help of his new friend, Maxime Topolov.