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Prompt NFTs: Selling the One-Sentence Seed Instead of the Art—Peak Grift or Next Wave?
“You can mint a receipt for a sentence. You can’t mint scarcity for language.” You bought a JPEG of a sentence. Tomorrow, that sentence is obsolete because the model that made it just ate another billion…
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Terms of Service for a Dream: Click “I Agree” to Continue Sleeping
“Close your eyes. Accept the cookies. Try not to click on your ex.” Cold open Sleep is the last offline app, and it still ships pop-ups. Your brain runs a nightly A/B test on meaning; the…
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The Director Problem: Video Models Finally Listen (and That’s the Trap)
“Obedient models don’t make better films. They just make your indecision obvious.” Compliance at scale feels like power until every shot looks like everyone else’s. TL;DR Obedience ≠ taste. Now that video models follow prompts, the…
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Average Is Automated: The Case for Weaponized Weird
“If it blends, it ends.” AI nailed the median. It can crank out polished mid-tier takes all day, and the web will politely forget them by lunch. We’re not here to outrun the machine—we’re here to…
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Meet the Algorithm Inside My Head: Training a Brand Voice on Decades of Bad Decisions
I always suspected the inside of my skull looked like a thrift-store clearance bin. Turns out I was right: when you scrape two decades of rage posts, late-night DMs, and earnest, misspelled journal entries, you get…
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LLM Lore-Bombing: Fan Communities Using AI to Rewrite Canon Until Authors Snap
Because the future of storytelling isn’t “What did the author intend?”—it’s “What did the prompt decide at 3 a.m.?” From Slow-Burn Fanfic to 0-to-50K Words in a Prompt Yesterday: lone writers posting 5K-word chapters on AO3.Today:…