AI is...

• AI ⃰  is ultra-processed. Built from real sources, but transformed until origin and context are no longer recoverable.
• AI is amplification. It scales whatever we feed it—care, bias, and abuse alike.
• AI is colonization. It extracts from many to benefit a few.
• AI is capitalism. Market growth is the incentive, not sustainability.
• AI is hypocrisy. Tech bros build more technology to save the world from technology.
• AI is ads. When use is free and costs are high, persuasion follows.
• AI is hallucination. It produces certainty without grounding.
• AI is Furby. It puts the most vulnerable at risk.
• AI is power. Empires rise. Empires fall.

 ⃰ Here, AI refers to the current LLM ecosystem available to the public.