The Trust Layer is Already Broken (And Slop Detection Won’t Fix It)
The plateau of AI-generated content that researchers are celebrating this week isn’t good news. It’s a symptom of something far more damaging: we’ve entered an era where the internet itself can no longer be trusted, not because AI is getting better...
Google’s “Quality” Crackdown Will Create the Problems It Claims to Fix
Google’s pitch for AI Overviews is clean and compelling: we’re rewarding original, authoritative content while burying derivative slop. Great in theory. But here’s what’s actually happening: Google is trying to regulate content quality while...
The AI Consultant That Outscored Humans Exposed a Human Problem
When the “AI consultant” aced the test, the real story was human status anxiety The SAP experiment that made headlines this week is not really about an overhyped AI consultant. It is about how professionals protect their status, even when the work in front of them is...
The Contrarian We Need
Why Michael Burry’s AI Skepticism Deserves Your Attention Michael Burry doesn’t do interviews. The hedge fund manager who famously predicted the 2008 housing crisis, immortalized by Christian Bale in The Big Short, has spent most of the past two decades...