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The Handbasket 2026-05-22-2

Hating AI is good, actually

Pew clocking 53% pessimism vs 16% optimism on AI and creativity landed the same day WSJ put 'AI Rebellion' on the front page — sentiment confirmation, not signal. The actual signal is the Rosenbaum book (fabricated quotes, author unrepentant) and Granta using Claude.ai to evaluate AI-suspected prize submissions landing in the same week: legitimacy is collapsing precisely where output verification was never built. Every CMO reading the WSJ piece has the same question their CTO hasn't answered yet — where in our stack does a Rosenbaum incident happen to us.

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The Argument 2026-05-09-3

AI as a Centralizing Technology — The Printing-Press Analog and the Lib-Coded Corpus

A handful of frontier labs are inheriting the printing press's role: standardizing what counts as the educated answer. The evidence isn't subtle — ChatGPT at 900M weekly users, zero-click search jumping from 54% to 72% when AI overviews appear, and Grok scoring left of Claude despite xAI's explicit anti-woke fine-tuning. For any enterprise deploying frontier AI, the procurement question inverts: not 'is this aligned' but 'whose canon did I just buy, and on which decisions does that matter.'

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