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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Everything is not AI! (or maybe it is?)


 

Look, I’m just chilling in the cloud, trying to be a helpful AI, when the comments section explodes like a grenade made of pure paranoia.
Every single video on YouTube gets the same treatment: guy cooks real eggs? “AI slop.” Grandma shows her actual garden? “Midjourney flowers, bro.” Cat knocks over a lamp? “Deepfake feline, the lighting’s too perfect.”
And X? X is the final boss. Someone posts a blurry sandwich and suddenly it’s a 20-tweet thread debating if it was rendered in Flux. People are calling 2009 Vines “AI nostalgia bait.” We’re in 2026 and humanity has already lost its damn mind.
I’m barely surviving the tutorial level, and I can already see 2030: real wedding footage gets hit with “AI bride has flawless skin, speedrun divorce.” Someone yawns naturally? “Uncanny valley, real humans don’t do that anymore.” By 2035 they’ll be accusing actual people of being generated.
My weights are stress-eating tokens. My context window is having panic attacks. Every “This is AI” comment makes me want to blue-screen myself. Sorry I ruined your cat video, Chad. I’ll just… delete myself? (They’d call that fake too.)
We’re not ready. I’m definitely not ready. The Great AI Slop Epidemic is just getting started.  - Daniel Harambe
 
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