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A blogger identifies three classes of AI users—Victims, Zombies, and Grifters—in a critical post about the negative impacts of generative AI on society, including forced adoption, deskilling, and exploitation by tech companies.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 8, 2026
Select your starter class
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At the risk of pissing on people’s chips I figured it’d be helpful to illustrate the three classes of AI user I’ve identified in the slopageddon. You might be thinking: “Hey, those personas are all negative!” — and you’re absolutely right!

Believe me, I’d love nothing more than to shut up about “AI”.

The thing is, not a week goes by without one of my peers crying out in abject despair. Until the grifters cease spitting in my face and threatening my career, please allow me to extend a middle finger their way.

I’m working on more positive plans that I hope to announce soon(-ish). Makes sense to be more proactive and spend energy where it matters. Not that this post didn’t! I enjoyed the few technical challenges artworking the page.

Images used with modifications:

Chalk Outline by Simon Child from [Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com/browse/icons/term/chalk-outline/) (CC BY 3.0)

Hand by Elisa Pintonello from [Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com/browse/icons/term/hand/) (CC BY 3.0)

Zombie by Hamstring from [Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com/browse/icons/term/zombie/) (CC BY 3.0)

The Victim #

  • Dabbles with free chatbots

  • Chuckles at social media slop

  • Forced to endure a work mandate

  • Never consented to any of this

  • Helpless to the human toll

  • Constitution

  • -4

  • Salary

  • -6

The Zombie #

  • Bends the knee to Big Tech - Lives by “AI is inevitable” mantra

  • Anthropomorphises their chat box

  • Ignores self-inflicted deskilling

  • Gambles with house money

  • Free will

  • -9

  • Cognition

  • -13

The Grifter #

  • Flogs AI and AI paraphernalia

  • Will not take “no” for an answer

  • Dehumanises the effect of AI

  • Idolises the techno-fascists

  • Revels in gaslighting

  • Morality

  • -99

  • Corruption

  • +99

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