Why bother developing taste when AI can recommend what to watch, buy, read, think, and possibly enjoy for you? Sven celebrates the glorious efficiency of outsourcing personal judgment, then ruins it by asking what happens when convenience starts making the choices before we do.
Artificial Intelligence
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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.
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?