This wouldn’t be nearly as big of a problem if mental healthcare was more accessible.

How many of these kids know their family or school can’t afford a therapist, so they go to free LLMs?

Fair enough; at least we’re on the same page as far as what we disagree about.

Your metaphor strays too far from the topic to be relevant. Here’s one that I believe is closer and makes your position look as silly as you made mine look:

“AI makes hacking easy” is like saying “ovens make cooking easy” when fires exist.

Many more people who couldn’t or wouldn’t cook before don’t have to worry about measuring or guessing temperature, manual cook times, setting up a cooking surface, etc. Does the meal cook itself? Obviously not - you still need a recipe and plenty of manual effort.

anyone who formerly had no chance due to being a “script kiddie” can now just prompt an AI* to eventually find a vulnerability

- me, in a comment you already replied to

I’m more or less the same; “prepare for the worst but hope for the best.”

I misread this as someone wrote a piece of legislation that was so good, the voting public paid him $4.2 billion as an outsourced legislator.

I must be naive.

You’re doing mental gymnastics to argue with me. Let’s try what I said worded differently in a way that hopefully helps you realize we agree:

It is now easier to hack.

Fair enough, but the overall idea stands:

The bar has been significantly lowered for what it takes to hack.

The irony - of course - is that their 401k money goes right into hacking those same people’s 401ks.

… but at least we can brainrot an entire generation with glass fruit slices and put artists out of work?

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go convince someone that the TikTok deepfakes they’re watching aren’t real and that cops don’t really employ nanny-boo-boos to unsettle criminals during interrogations. No, I’m not joking.

I’m no cybersecurity expert, but from what I’ve heard from those who are, this is the new normal as anyone who formerly had no chance due to being a “script kiddie” can now just prompt an AI* to eventually find a vulnerability.

* oversimplification redacted

I’ve had a couple show up in my mailboxes over the years, usually in the form of checks for less than a dollar.

“Would you like to upgrade to our non-annihilation plan?”

- Corporations in 2026, apparently

Emphatically agree, but “normies” gonna “normie.”

Convenience is the primary goal for them.

They want to be on record as having been against this without actually having to oppose it so that when Nuremberg 2 rolls around they escape the gallows.

“Whatever - I’m going to do it anyway.”

- Donald Jeffreyepsteinsbestcustomer Trump, probably

Tons of people call people dumb on Reddit and never get suspended for it.

I could see them defending spez’s honor, but not just calling random people dumb.

I’ve never heard of, let alone seen such a platform ban.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I’m not aware of them banning for that kind of thing.

Big, if true.

what lemmy needs is the niche subs

I see far more “someone else should make a community” than people making communities. I think that’s a bit silly and selfish.

In your first paragraph you hint at shadowbanning.

You can’t even shadowban people at all on Lemmy (as far as I know), while it’s a go-to for unethical Reddit moderators; nothing can be done to stop them and most people don’t even know it exists.

I was shadowbanned from /r/tampa because I asked them to implement removal reasons (a feature that’s existed on Reddit and takes five or ten minutes to set up). That upset /u/md28usmc and he shadowbanned me for it. Asking why I was shadowbanned led to them perma-banning me.

As a long time Reddit mod and new Lemmy.World mod, I do lament the lack of many helpful features I’m used to, but I’m glad for:

• The significantly reduced likelihood of a moderator going rogue (because a rival community can pop up in its place with the same name and do a better job and the admins here are much more responsive and transparent)

• Public-facing mod logs (see previous point)

One of the big reasons I’m even here is /r/tampa’s moderators went off the deep end, quietly shadowbanning people they didn’t like, banning anyone who talked about it, and lying about doing both.

If I were to do something similar with /c/tampa, I trust an admin would remove me and/or someone would start whatever.instance/c/tampa. On Reddit, running /r/FreeTampa (because you can’t just have another /r/tampa), I have to be very careful about talking about why the subreddit even exists or we get slapped for brigading; Reddit is staunchly against anyone constructively criticizing subreddits/moderators.