It’s Not Piracy When AI Does It

November 4, 2025

When individuals used technology to share paywalled knowledge, it was condemned as piracy. When AI models now scrape, summarize, and reproduce that same information without paying for it, it’s celebrated as innovation. This double standard exposes a deeper contradiction in how we define ownership, creativity, and fairness online. Drawing on examples from Sci-Hub to ChatGPT, the article traces how AI has become the new middleman in the struggle between access and control, where the same act that once got people sued now fuels billion-dollar industries. It asks a pressing question: if technology can bypass the walls of information, who truly benefits: those seeking knowledge, or those selling it?

Crypto Money Laundering: A Record-Breaking Seizure

October 28, 2025

The US just announced its largest monetary seizure ever, worth more than $15 billion in bitcoins. The targeted entity is an investment conglomerate known as Prince Holding Group, responsible for running more than 10 scam compounds in Cambodia and for conducting international money laundering operations. This article explores the phenomena of scam cities, the role of cryptocurrencies in facilitating international money laundering and how blockchain can be used as a tool for accountability.

The Instagram Algorithm Knows Too Much

October 21, 2025

Instagram might not be reading minds, but it’s getting close. As Meta begins weaving AI deeper into Instagram’s system, the line between reflection and manipulation is thinning. The app already tracks emotion through what we watch and linger on, soon, AI could amplify that feedback loop. This piece explores how emotion is quietly becoming data, and why that shift should concern us.

The Oppenheimer Test

October 16, 2025

Every system reaches a point where its makers lose the ability to contain it. Oppenheimer faced it in 1945. Artificial intelligence is moving toward the same line, where control slips and responsibility spreads to those forced to live with the consequences.

5 Scientific Facts About AI Influence

October 14, 2025

While public debate fixates on deepfakes and election interference, a more pervasive force is emerging: not through propaganda, but through conversation. As millions engage with Large Language Models every day, asking for advice, explanations, and emotional reassurance, AI is no longer just informing, it is influencing. Drawing on new research from 2024–2025, this article uncovers how LLMs influence cognition and political alignment at a subconscious level, not through spectacle but through chatbot conversations. If influence is no longer loud, how do we notice it at all?

AI and Work: The Hidden Human Cost of Automation

October 7, 2025

From coding to content creation, automation is reshaping not just how we work — but why we work. The real danger of AI may not be unemployment, but the slow unmaking of what it means to be human. Through the story of a developer training the AI that will one day replace him, this article explores the human cost of automation. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Arendt, it examines how technology erodes meaning, identity, and connection, and asks what happens when humans no longer stand at the centre of their own creation.

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