# Select your starter class

> Source: <https://dbushell.com/2026/07/08/select-your-starter-class/>
> Published: 2026-07-08 05:43:40.554581+00:00

# Select your starter class

At the risk of [pissing on people’s chips](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-just-so-bored-of-ai/) 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](https://dbushell.com/2026/05/20/google-just-spat-in-my-face/) and threatening my career, please allow me to extend a middle finger their way.

I’m working on [more positive plans](https://dbushell.com/2026/06/01/challenge-and-opportunity/#an-opportunity) 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