Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! Pivot to AI Jun 5, 2025 “Hooked” builds on research papers about the mechanisms of gambling addiction a life- destroying problem to explain how you can use the same psychological manipulation techniques in your app this book is on the bookshelf at every startup.
I noticed the addictive aspect of the chatbot 2 years ago, and warned that I suspected it wasn’t a coincidence it seemed to have aspects that reminded me of the game Diablo. So I wasn’t surprised to hear from David Gerard that tech startups have a book called “Hooked in their offices.
Sam Altman @sama 8:19 PM · Oct 24, 2023 i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes
