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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The internet didn’t disappear. It fractured into billions of personalized versions, each carefully curated by algorithms that know exactly what keeps us comfortable. The result? We all think we’re seeing reality, when we’re mostly seeing ourselves.
Once upon a time, the internet was full of strange people doing strange things. Then came metrics, algorithms, personal brands, and optimization. What happened when the web stopped being a neighborhood and became a marketplace?
We didn’t automate intelligence — we automated conviction. In an era that mistakes tone for truth, artificial confidence has become the new operating system of public life.