The machine in the man: Pure AI content production and a botnet to replace the internet

The 6th Estate; the real Web3; the Reverse Turing Test; and the economics of large language models (LLMs)

by Midjourney AI (prompt: “in the clouds, a humanoid robot playing a piano with its hands”)

Over the last few years, I’ve talked a lot about both the potential for and implication of fully-autonomous content creation — that media…