> final apotheosis of the atomised individual leaving all traces of community behind
It's not. In 10 years this is going to look as dumb as the biohacker wetware bros surgically embedding RFID chips in their hands. There's much more to communication (and life) than receiving pantomimed validation for your obscure references. You could be throwing away opportunities to connect with another person who would genuinely share your interests and help you grow as a person. Having a useless magnet in your fingertip is going to seem brilliant compared to ending up socially withdrawn and mentally unwell because you traded human companionship for a chat bot.
I think it's a much bigger social phenomenon already. Social talk will become even more a matter of performance, positioning and signalling, rather than something pursued for enjoyment of the thing itself.
Maybe I'm just weird but LLM conversations seem generally more interesting and enlightening, even in these early iterations of the technology.