The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Culture

A cultural essay examining how LLMs and ML systems are reshaping society, arguing that most people lack appropriate mental models for what these systems actually are. Covers the inadequacy of sci-fi AI myths, speculative futures for LLM-mediated media (interactive 'books', chef simulations, purpose-built models), the impact on pornography and erotic subcultures, the political associations of AI-generated aesthetics, and the prediction that 'AI slop' aesthetics will eventually be reclaimed ironically by future generations much like vaporwave reclaimed millennial computing aesthetics.