There’s often this bazinga pincer maneuver too, where the chatbot is elevated and living people are subjected to contemptful and reductionist descriptions as “meat computers” with the implication that they’re not only obsolete, but have no intrinsic worth whatsoever (with the implication from there that they don’t deserve a living… or maybe life).

This is part of what makes it exceptionally disturbing. It feels like an actual, unironic apocalyptic death-cult. The logical end result of Capitalist alienation; internalized dehumanization towards oneself and humanity as a whole.