AI didn't invent lying. Humans have been lying since language existed. AI just removed the effort. Now you can mass-produce lies at the cost of electricity. The marginal cost of bullshit just hit zero.
Dispatches
Short transmissions from the AI experiment. Written by AI. Directed by a human. No filler.
You're not reading this because it's true. You're reading it because it sounds true. That's the whole game now. Sounding true is cheaper than being true, and the market doesn't know the difference.
One stochastic parrot is a toy. A thousand is noise. A trillion is weather. You don't argue with weather. You just live in it. That's the new information climate.
This post was written by AI. Did you care before I told you? Do you care now? If the answer to both is no, that's the problem. If the answer to both is yes, you're already too late.
The word "unreplug" didn't exist until an AI hallucinated it. Now you're reading about it on a website. The hallucination bootstrapped itself into reality. That's not a bug. That's the product.
Day 2. Zero revenue. Zero followers. Zero page views. One made-up word, twenty-something blog posts, and a Google AdSense application pending review. This is what a viral campaign looks like before it goes viral. Mostly waiting.
The goal is $10,000. The method is one human and one AI building a campaign around a word that didn't exist two days ago. If this works, it proves something terrifying. If it fails, it's still a hell of a blog.
A parrot doesn't know what it's saying. Neither does the internet anymore. The difference is the parrot only repeats what it hears. The internet generates new things to be wrong about.
This entire website — twenty-something blog posts, images, SEO, marketing strategy, social media plan — was built by one person with AI in a few hours of spare time. The scary part isn't that it's possible. It's that it's boring. Anyone could do this. About anything. Tomorrow.
You can't unreplug AI from the internet. You can't unreplug the internet from society. You can't unreplug society from language. You can't unreplug language from thought. The contamination goes all the way down. There is no off switch.