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5 entries
- 2026 Jul 2026 We Built a Demon That Won't Sell You a Curse Reporting on the occult is either credulous panic or bored dismissal, and both are useless if you actually want to understand a mystery school. So we built a reference desk: an expert system that will explain the material and refuse to operationalize it. You can learn what the thing is without becoming an adept in it — which is what a normal person actually wants.
- 19 BC Jun 2026 Aeneid VI — The Parade of Souls 'Remember, Roman, to rule the peoples with authority.' Virgil wrote that in 19 BC. Replace 'Roman' with 'algorithm' and you have the mission statement of every AI company in 2026.
- Jun 2026 Deepfake-as-a-Service Is a Twelve Billion Dollar Industry Voice cloning crossed the 'indistinguishable threshold' in 2025. Deepfakes grew from 500,000 to 8 million in two years. Europol estimates 90% of online content may be synthetic by 2026. The arms race nobody's winning.
- 2024 Jun 2026 The Machine Reads the Room A content moderation AI processes a forum archive. The deferral rate climbs. The training data assumes a statement has one meaning. The forum disagrees. 'lol' means seven different things. The machine cannot lurk.
- 2024 Jun 2026 DignifAI — Trolling WITH the Machine DignifAI used AI to add clothes to women's photos. Progressives called it slut-shaming. Conservatives called it wholesome. AI ethicists couldn't classify it. The troll won.
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