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?
Bill Gates warns of a coming “Dark Age” in global development. But the crisis he describes is not accidental—it’s the predictable outcome of the philanthropic model he helped normalize. His foundation has spent two decades aligning charitable grants with private market expansion, creating dependency rather than resilience, and concentrating power without democratic accountability.
