Apparently everything is AI now. Your phone, your fridge, your toothbrush, your socks if marketing gets its way. Sven would like to know what happened to words meaning things, and why “AI-powered” has become a substitute for explaining what a product actually does.
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AI detectors promise to tell us whether a machine wrote something. There’s just one small problem: humans don’t all write the same way. Sven investigates what happens when proving you’re human becomes part of the writing process.
Why bother finishing a thought before opening AI? Hand over the confusion, accept the polished answer, and let the machine decide what you were trying to ask. Sven examines the glorious efficiency of prompting before thinking.
Everything may still be running, but that does not mean it is working. Sometimes “fine” simply means people have become very good at compensating for what is quietly getting worse.
AI companies have discovered a wonderfully efficient form of consent: activate everything automatically and let users hunt for the off switch. Welcome to the future, where participation is assumed and privacy has become unpaid administrative labor.
Humans keep asking AI to become more like us. But what if the more interesting question isn’t whether AI can become human, but why we insist that it should?