The regenerate button gives us endless second chances. Sven would like to remind you that endless options are not the same thing as better judgment.
Sven
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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.
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 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?