“Modern multi-billion parameter AI models are scaffolded on and made possible by the largest heist in human history: theft of everything that could be scraped from every corner of the digital spaces we share. Without prevention of and justice for this damage caused by current models, their use is highly fraught, ethically. We, as human beings, have developed complex social forms of intelligence when it comes to dealing with things like credit and provenance, two things that modern models are incapable of. And without monetary and policy recognition of the entire global economy of labor that enabled current AI models, using them is active permission given to the theft of all human art and knowledge.”
Archive for January, 2026
Sunday, January 4th, 2026
Outlook for 2026
Saturday, January 3rd, 2026People have told me my whole life that I’m talented. As if that summed up everything. I was quick to accept and run with it, but wasn’t very old before something about it bothered me, as if it was just the small piece of a whole that remained hidden. Talent is simply the beginning — a gift, but also a profound responsibility. It’s not really worth a hill of beans unless developed with education, discipline, ongoing effort, and perseverance. With that obligation comes the necessity of not only following a worthy impulse, but also conquering the doubts and fears that go with it. More importantly, it requires confronting the inherent pride that was seeded the very first time somebody said, “Oh, you’re so talented.” I don’t think it’s a challenge that ever goes away. For me, it means more than unraveling what it is to be a creative individual, but what it is to be a soul called upon to put all the priorities of divine creation into alignment — to discover, by grace, the truth of my human nature, to understand the pitfalls along the journey that any recipient of talent is compelled to undertake, and to discern my intended role as a cooperative instrument of a greater purpose, as a grateful “agent” for the creative source of everything that was, is now, or ever shall be.