Contains adult themes: this story is about a former adult performer’s post on X. Nothing explicit is described.
In brief: On Halloween night, former adult performer Sasha Grey posted that she is “fascinated” by medical and clinical professionals who share trending propaganda, especially when it is “clearly written by AI,” and shame others while doing it. She named no one and no specific trend. She signed off with Sartre and a pumpkin.
Some people spend Halloween handing out candy. Sasha Grey spent part of hers handing out an existential diagnosis. On the evening of Oct. 31, Central time, she posted on X:
it’s always fascinating to me when medical and clinical professionals engage with trending propaganda, ESPECIALLY when it’s clearly written by AI (LLMs) and shame others in the process.
That is the thesis. The supporting argument followed in the same post, lowercase and unhurried:
humans are interesting creatures. here you have a profession(s) which should focus on helping and bettering people, yet the dopamine hit and engagement, sometimes the money that comes along with piggybacking off of the falsehoods, is more than enough for them to carelessly forego their professional code of ethics.
Note the “profession(s).” Grey hedges the plural, but not the verdict. She does not say which trend, which post or which professionals she means, and Channel 304 is not going to guess. What she does say is that the problem is not just the AI-written text; it is the people with credentials who pass it along and shame others on the way, apparently for engagement.
Then came the closer:
anyways, hell is other people, indeed. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃😈👻
“Hell is other people” is the most famous line from Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 play No Exit, in which three people discover the afterlife is just being stuck in a room with each other forever. Grey’s “indeed” does a lot of work there. So does following a line about the abyss of human nature with three Halloween emoji, which is perhaps the most 2026 way to cite French existentialism.
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The post resonated. As of Nov. 2 the X API showed it at 48,877 views and 858 likes, with 44 replies and 43 bookmarks. That is a modest number for an account Grey’s size, but a respectable one for a lowercase essay on medical ethics posted on Halloween night, when most of the internet was busy rating costumes.
Grey, born in 1988, left adult film years ago and has since worked as an actress, author, DJ and streamer. She has a long record of thinking out loud online about media and culture. This time the target was the information ecosystem itself: machines that write the falsehoods, and people who should know better spreading them.
There is a lesson in here somewhere, and Grey seems to have put it in the simplest possible terms. When the trick and the treat both come from a chatbot, check the bag.
Source: Sasha Grey on X (Oct. 31).