ai anxiety and screen time reduction

10 May 2023 · 1 min

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Charles Cormier argues that screen anxiety, the mental pressure from attention-grabbing apps, is a bigger problem than posture or stress. He criticizes TikTok and YouTube for sensationalist content and fear-driven messaging, especially around AI, calling the culture toxic.

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If you want to reduce screen time. Well, why do you want to reduce screen time is the first question? The posture, Is it the stress? Is it the fact that people don't move their body? Yeah, the glasses could fix the fact that you don't move your body enough. But I think the greatest problem is the anxiety, right, the screen anxiety of constantly being watching something while your body tells you, look, dude, go out and go take a walk in the woods and go have fun. Go, go be a human. You know, and especially that the apps that you're watching, right, it's not fact that you have blue light in your face. It's like the TikTok, which is the most toxic, I think is just like the constant fight for your attention and the hype and oh, look at this, I think this is quite toxic, you know, like the YouTuber culture, just to always attract your attention with silly headlines, oh, shit, the end of the world's coming and AI is going to kill you. And you know that. I think that that crosses the ethical line.