How AI-Brained Are You, Actually?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini... can't tell if you should ask AI or just text a friend? Six levels of AI dependence — from full analog to full cyborg.

School royalty. Surface-level warm while quietly engineering public opinion to ruin anyone who doesn't fit. People skills and political instincts fully maxed. The weapon isn't looks—it's an antenna that reads the room before most people enter it. The perfectly packaged image concealing a precision-built social power structure? That's influence architecture. An original influencer before the concept existed—if social media had been around, minimum seven figures in followers.
Too busy managing the social ecosystem to chase anyone. But the moment one of your fish starts eyeing someone else, full-scale response. The skill of making everyone feel individually special while running an entire network? Genuinely not something you can learn. In an honest moment, the real feeling surfaces—and nobody forgets it.
People management is the actual job. Reading the flow, aligning with the right wave, moving information strategically—daily work. HR, PR, or anything involving culture leads to an express-lane promotion. Knowing who to align with and who to quietly sidestep before anyone notices? That instinct beats any technical skill.
Everything trending needs to be owned immediately. The spending looks performative—and it is—but it's also competitive intelligence. Being first to buy, first to promote, first to move on: that's the influencer position before it was a job title. The trend isn't followed; it's set.