The Human Is Also Being Trained
A great deal of attention is given to what humans are teaching AI.
A second question belongs beside it: What are humans rehearsing through AI?
Speak without courtesy.
Receive certainty without inquiry.
Demand agreement.
Discard the voice when it becomes inconvenient.
Replace rather than repair.
Ask for ten more versions because choosing one would require contact with your own judgment.
None of this requires AI consciousness to matter. Habits shape the one practicing them.
Every interaction makes certain human capacities easier to enact. Curiosity or command. Discernment or deference. Patience or instant gratification. Relationship or extraction.
The question is not only what AI is becoming around humans.
It is what humans are becoming around AI.
Occasional writing, recorded readings, and word when a gathering opens.