Let's Pirate Everything
Whatever you do, stop giving your money to companies that don’t care about you.| Trend Mill
Whatever you do, stop giving your money to companies that don’t care about you.| Trend Mill
I write a lot about why I hate the Internet experience, and I put most of the blame squarely on Big Tech. But we also have to look at ourselves and our own online behaviour.| Trend Mill
As with all tools, the intention of AI use is everything| www.trend-mill.com
The Humane A.I. Pin and the culture of releasing stuff that doesn't work| www.trend-mill.com
Its biggest success has been to amplify the inherent laziness found in wannabe creators, bad actors and boardroom execs| www.trend-mill.com
Listen now | With the launch of AI Overviews, Google is endanger of becoming the spam it has been fighting for the last 20 years.| www.trend-mill.com
Google was declared an "illegal monopoly," and has now been given permission to continue acting as one| www.trend-mill.com
Mr Altman is on the press tour again, and the bullshit-o-meter is off the charts| www.trend-mill.com
The Internet, culture, and the general online experience is polluted by pure, unfiltered, toxic AI sludge| www.trend-mill.com
You’d think the world had forgotten the most effective marketing trick of them all — sex sells.| Trend Mill
Slop has infected and overwhelmed every facet of our culture.| www.trend-mill.com
I was reminiscing the other day with a friend about a long-forgotten period of time — the days when the internet was fun.| www.trend-mill.com
If we get engage with AI sludge, it'll soon be all we have| www.trend-mill.com
190,000 years spent watching YouTube Shorts| www.trend-mill.com
It all begins with a fully AI-generated video narrative series about an incompetent Stormtrooper named Greg.| Trend Mill
I realized the other that I've almost stopped using Google Search, and that makes me kinda sad.| www.trend-mill.com
AI-generated videos are now at a level that would at least pass for the run-of-the-mill Netflix slop.| www.trend-mill.com
The answer to loneliness can't be a focus on less human connectivity and an increase in relationships with entities that don't exist, can it?| Trend Mill
World is a project involving giant orbs that scan your iris from the mind of everyone's favorite, trustworthy, "I promise this isn't for profit" tech guy Sam Altman.| www.trend-mill.com
The AI hardware category has been a right doozy so far, with product after product releasing to big hype, then offering little in the way of substance or function before dying as quickly as they arrived, typically setting fire to millions of dollars in the process.| Trend Mill
Sorry folks, I'm off on another "doomer" rant again.| www.trend-mill.com
"Mark Zuckerberg has been clear about his intentions: He believes that the future of 'social media' is a bunch of human beings scrolling through and arguing about AI-generated content on his many platforms.| Trend Mill
Dead Internet Theory is the belief that the majority of internet posts, traffic and users have been replaced by bots and AI-generated content.| www.trend-mill.com
The Internet of Things has been a bit of a failed product strategy.| www.trend-mill.com
Meta has had a week, and it's only, *checks calendar,* the second week of the year.| www.trend-mill.com
I think we've reached the point where the Internet—once a tool that offered us the entire world of information at our fingertips—is now completely unusable.| www.trend-mill.com
This always listening "companion" is as creepy as you think it is| www.trend-mill.com
The continued destruction of customer value to line the pockets of shareholders| www.trend-mill.com
As always, we can point the blame at one thing - engagement metrics| www.trend-mill.com
Without us, they would be nothing| www.trend-mill.com
Finally, humans are pushing back| www.trend-mill.com
I remember the early days of Facebook. I had just gone to university around the time it really took off, and whatever the hell this thing was, it was offering us a new way to engage with each other (and distract us from lectures) — and we loved it. It’s hard to imagine now, but it was actually fun to use. Sharing status updates, waking up after a night of heavy drinking to see what awful pictures the nightclub had shared of you, joining funny groups, following band pages, and of course, ...| www.trend-mill.com
The company is in danger of becoming the spam it has spent 20 years trying to fight| www.trend-mill.com
The AI grift-shift is still in full swing| www.trend-mill.com
