--- title: The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances description: A critical essay arguing that LLMs will primarily be deployed to frustrate customers, diffuse corporate accountability, and create new forms of manipulation.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-annoyances-e3jgcnip1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances | daily.dev og:description: A critical essay arguing that LLMs will primarily be deployed to frustrate customers, diffuse corporate accountability, and create new forms of manipulation.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-annoyances-e3jgcnip1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/E3JgcniP1.png og:image:alt: The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 15 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A critical essay arguing that LLMs will primarily be deployed to frustrate customers, diffuse corporate accountability, and create new forms of manipulation. Key concerns include: LLM-staffed customer service designed to make people give up, an arms race between consumer and corporate AI agents in 'agentic commerce', algorithmic bias encoding social discrimination while obscuring responsibility, and a future where everyone pays AI companies to manage the drudgery those same companies created. The author uses vivid examples of real harm (wrongful imprisonment via facial recognition, police confrontations from misidentified snacks) to illustrate how ML systems diffuse responsibility across complex sociotechnical chains, making individual accountability nearly impossible. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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