Technology

The same extraction machine that scraped books and art is now scraping code, and the programmers who wrote it are being conscripted to serve the AI that replaced them — reviewing its output at inhuman speed, right up until an Amazon outage proved what happens when even that role gets automated away. [Read More]

A month-by-month look at the fastest-growing channels on YouTube shows AI slop isn’t just present at scale — it’s the platform’s fastest-growing category, and the examples show exactly how it crowds out the people who actually make things. [Read More]

A DMCA lawsuit against Apple shows how AI firms scraped the platform to build the very tools now competing with the creators who made it worth watching. [Read More]

The AI boom is not a technological revolution but a regime of extraction — taking language, art, labor, electricity, water, and legitimacy from the many and converting them into power for the few. [Read More]