De-caring by Mandy Brown.
The impulse to doomscroll is a kind of vigilance to danger: we know, instinctively, that trouble is near, and so like the hare aware of a fox nearby, we look and listen with all our senses. But unlike the fox, the stream never tires even as we tremble with exhaustion, unable to look away.
The obsequious personalities are a saccharine cover for a takeover: when you can’t read or think or act on your own, but must ask the bot to do it for you, you are not free. Freedom requires uncertainty.