Most people look at AI as a better calculator. I don’t see it that way. The logic behind these models makes a quiet philosophical claim: that human expression is nothing more than a set of regularities, a history that can be fully exhausted by math. What gets left out is the one thing that actually…
The people generating AI slop at scale are making a choice to strip-mine a commons—to extract private profit while pushing the cost of filtering and verification onto everyone else. Is the rise of generated content a technical evolution, or a fundamental breach of information ethics?
As a lifelong fan of science fiction, I always hoped humanity would draw wisdom from its darkest stories. Instead, I find myself watching the bleakest visions of Orwell, Dick, and Black Mirror being sketched into reality. Mandatory digital ID systems—once the stuff of dystopian imagination—are now being piloted and promoted by governments, corporations, and international…
