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Ponder this: Only drug dealers and software companies refer to their customers as “users.” That word alone exposes an insidious truth: both addictions thrive on dependency, both hijack the brain’s reward system, and both profit from our inevitable and insatiable surrender. And just as there are synthetic drugs, we are swimming in synthetic dopamine. What’s more synthetic than synthetic? More stimulating that stimulating? The prevalence of AI.