AI produces a restatement of what it is trained on. When we train on AI re are restating the restatement.

https://www.bespacific.com/the-internet-is-filling-up-with-ai/

The internet is filling up with AI

AI Vision by GPTZero [free & fee] – At the current rate, AI-generated content will dominate every major platform within a decade. AI Vision scans the text on your feed as you browse and highlights what’s AI-generated. GPTZero scans millions of posts daily — identifies the ones that went viral and our model caught as AI-written. See for yourself. AI Vision scans the text on your feed as you browse and highlights what’s AI-generated, via Chrome extension [none for FireFox].

• Today, 16.0% of the internet is AI.

• Today, 18.4% of Substack is AI.

• Today, 34.3% of Medium is AI.

• Today, 11.6% of X is AI.

Depressing…

https://www.bespacific.com/the-rolling-coup/

The Rolling Coup

The Nation – Unless we begin to act, our democracy will likely be destroyed.  Richard Gephardt and Timothy Wirth: “We believe that in the United States of America today we are in the middle of a “rolling coup.” Our democracy’s avowed commitments to social justice, the empowerment of all citizens, a more equitable economy, the rule of law, and a balance between our three branches of government are under serious threat. After decades of trying to roll back progress on these commitments, deeply conservative ideologues have finally gained effective control of all our government’s powers and are determined to use control to support Donald Trump and to ensure that he will never lose an election. The current executive is slowly dismantling institutional checks on the president’s power. Their efforts to corrode and then destroy democracy as we know it are more discernible each month and year. We call this a “rolling coup” and in the following paragraphs describe many of the actions that may each appear legal or at least arguably so but that taken together are well along the path of destroying our democracy. At the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked what had been created. “A republic, if you can keep it,” he answered. We take that admonition seriously today. Between us we have served for seven decades, mostly in elected federal office, through Watergate, the post-Vietnam anti-war demonstrations, years of civil rights marches, Iran-Contra, debates over voting rights, the post-9/11 surveillance debates, and two impeachments. We are writing today because we are watching something different from any of these events and because most Americans, including most of our friends in both parties, do not see the big picture. Many may recognize and be concerned about individual actions or decisions taken by the administration, but few have taken a step back and connected the dots. The “rolling coup” is much more than one development, one decision, or a single day…”