AI Ethics

Consent first; convenience survives.

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  • The Anti-Influence Suit: Browse Without Being Modeled

    The Anti-Influence Suit: Browse Without Being Modeled

    “Your feed doesn’t need your secrets. It just needs your patterns.” Cold open Open a tab and you become a specimen. Scroll speed becomes a confession. Dwell time turns into a diagnosis. The machine doesn’t “know”…

  • Stop Surprise Billing: Kill the Quiet Drains

    Stop Surprise Billing: Kill the Quiet Drains

    Set-and-forget guardrails that actually work. You didn’t “forget to cancel.” You were drafted. The app called it recommended, the checkout called it peace of mind, and the cloud called it auto-scale. Somewhere between “Try free” and…

  • Cookie Walls, But Make It Performance Art

    Cookie Walls, But Make It Performance Art

    We clicked “No.” The network still said “Yum.” The banner bows. The lights dim. You press “Reject” like a sane person who values a quiet life. Curtain drops. Applause. And then, backstage—the network tab starts juggling…

  • Mascot Mode: Why Personality Is the New Alignment Theater

    Mascot Mode: Why Personality Is the New Alignment Theater

    Editor’s note — August 2025: Earlier this year we tried to force Gemini into a personality and it didn’t take. Google now ships selectable personas. Below is what changed—and what still reads like alignment theater. Once…

  • The Personal Data Yard Sale

    The Personal Data Yard Sale

    “If you don’t price your data, someone else will inventory your life.” Welcome to the night market where you’re both customer and product. Habits glow in jars, typos sparkle like confetti, and your Tuesday route loops…

  • AI vs. Occam’s Razor: Why the Simplest Explanation Is “It’s Buggy,”

    AI vs. Occam’s Razor: Why the Simplest Explanation Is “It’s Buggy,”

    Every few weeks, Twitter melts down because a large language model coughs up an oddly poetic phrase or refuses a command with dramatic flair. Cue the headlines: “ChatGPT Achieves Consciousness—Experts Terrified.” Relax. Your toaster once sparked…

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We don’t nurture leads. We interrogate them in hostile rooms.

If it can’t fail, it can’t be “ethical.”

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Do the hard thing in code.

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Keep The Algorithms Guessing.

Less ritual, more result.

Come for receipts, leave with leverage.

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FAQ

Is this moralizing?
No sermons. Constraints you can enforce. Red lines first, features second.
How do you verify “responsible” claims?
Receipt Chain + explicit falsifiers. If it can’t be wrong, it isn’t right.
Do you call out vendors?
By method, not by meme. We test flows and publish the harness.
Where’s your policy?
Editorial values. No dark patterns. No quiet drains.

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