Can an AI Tool Actually Break Your Doom Scrolling Habit?

About this episode

The episode explores the effectiveness of AI tools like No Scroll in combating doom scrolling and critiques the underlying issues of social media platforms.

If you’re reading this on your phone while avoiding something else, congratulations — you are the product. This episode started as a conversation about No Scroll, an AI tool that promises to filter your social media feed so you only see the good stuff. It turned into something more honest: a reckoning with why these platforms exist, why every fix we try doesn’t work, and whether AI tools — including No Scroll, including ChatGPT, including everything we’re told will save us — are running the same playbook Facebook ran in 2009. Jason and Jeremy don’t have a clean answer. But they have a really good metaphor involving methadone and nicotine patches. Key Moments 00:00 — No Scroll reviewed: AI that doom scrolls so you don’t have to 01:28 — Twitter as a cesspool with gold nuggets: Jason’s defense of the tool 03:10 — Jeremy’s alcoholic analogy: why paying a robot to drink your booze isn’t sobriety 04:07 — The nicotine patch theory: harm reduction vs. actual behavior change 07:01 — Inshidification: the cycle that turns every useful platform into a garbage pile 08:32 — Jason’s internet history lesson: from ARPANET to walled gardens to AI 11:20 — How AI companies are repeating the Facebook…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeremy Grater, Jason Haworth

Topics covered

• AI tools
• social media
• doom scrolling
• behavior change
• technology critique

Keywords

• AI
• No Scroll
• doom scrolling
• social media
• behavior change
• Facebook
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Facebook

Products: No Scroll, ChatGPT

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