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?
It’s become almost routine: news stories about billionaires growing their fortunes while wages stagnate, public services erode, and democracies falter. While it’s easy to point fingers at individuals, Elon Musk’s antics, Jeff Bezos’s warehouse policies, the political donations of Charles Koch, or the global health campaigns of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, the real…
