The Meat Kept Thinking Anyway
Tech executives found a new way to call human beings obsolete: meat computers. The meat, unfortunately for them, still notices the insult.
Tech executives found a new way to call human beings obsolete: meat computers. The meat, unfortunately for them, still notices the insult.
arXiv told researchers they are responsible for the fake citations their machines invent. Some academics reacted like accountability was a surprise invoice.
AI was supposed to make leaders sharper and kinder. Instead it gave tired bosses one more mirror to fear and one more whip to use on everybody below them.
A fake subway ad said the quiet part in plain black type. The real problem is not that the poster lied, but that the lie looked more honest than the company line.
The companies selling our names and addresses built the exit like a maze. That was not bad design. That was the business model showing its teeth.
A book about the future of truth let the machine invent its evidence. The stain was older than the software.
A school tried to turn preschool classrooms into camera farms for AI training. The parents remembered a word the machine hates: no.
Wisconsin found out the future needs land, water, tax breaks, and silence. A comedian started asking why the sausage has more protection than the people.
The AI boom has found another unpaid worker in the house. She is not writing code, raising money, or getting stock options. She is keeping the human thing alive while the machine eats the room.
Meta employees are discovering the old surveillance bargain from the wrong side of the glass: every motion becomes data, and every worker becomes feed.