One hurricane, one power outage, and suddenly humanity remembers how to function without Wi-Fi. Sven explores our dependence on technology, the surprising resilience of the human brain, and why a simple pen might be AI’s most embarrassing competitor.
Artificial Intelligence
52 posts
Everything is AI now. Chatbots, refrigerators, recommendation systems, toothbrushes. When one label describes everything, does it still explain anything? Sven would like a word. Preferably several.
AI slop is flooding the internet, platforms are building tools to detect it, and everyone is suddenly very concerned about authenticity. Sven has one small question: who exactly taught the machines to behave like this?
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.
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.
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.