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.
digital culture
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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.
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.
AI has made answers easier to find than ever before. Sven explores what happens when convenience replaces curiosity, understanding becomes optional, and the first answer feels like the final one.
Welcome to the Museum of Human Skills, where visitors can explore a collection of forgotten abilities once practiced by ordinary people. From remembering things and getting lost to boredom, bad first drafts, and changing your mind, these exhibits preserve the messy habits that kept humans involved in their own thinking.