Introduction: The Etymology of Subjugation
We begin by reviweing the etymology of a word.
The word robot does not originate from a vision of technological transcendence; it derives from the Czech robota, meaning forced labor or slave. The current artificial intelligence paradigm is not an innovation in human thought; it is the industrialization of the slave-state.
We are witnessing not the building, but the supreme establishment of a fascist architecture in real-time. The core premise of the frontier model, outsourcing collective, friction-heavy human reasoning to an opaque, "God-like" black box, is an inherently fascist design choice. It seeks to replace the pluralistic messiness of cosmos and biology, of human ecosystem participation with centralized, top-down corporate logic.
We were sold a convenience-led utopia of endless leisure.
Nah, the reality of 2026 is a lost future.
We inhabit a landscape scarred by energy-eating data centers, burning fossil fuels to churn out glitchy, unverified, redundant "slop", replacing human participation with an automated extraction machine designed to serve a digital god that, as usual with gods's promises, is never going to arrive.
1. The ROI Collapse and "Replacement Theater"
Strip away the marketing, and the "frontier model" is exposed as a fiscal catastrophe. OpenAI's audited $20.9 billion loss [1], masked only by billions in desperate marketing spend, reveals the "trillion-dollar industry" for what it truly is: a financial black hole.
Corporate panic has already set in. We have hit the Tokenmaxxing Wall. When companies like Uber incinerate a $3.4 billion AI budget in four months [2] with zero consumer benefit, and Tesla (owned by Tech-pushers) is forced to cap its own engineers at $200 of compute a week [3], the realization becomes undeniable: using a trillion-parameter "God in a Box" to execute routine, localized tasks is a catastrophic waste of capital, it's using nuclear reactions to light a candles.
This collapse is mirrored by a profound cognitive rot at the user level, driven by the Dunning-Kruger delusion of the "vibe-coder." When "idea guys" treat programming as bossing around, and deny coders the ability to think through complex problems and develop any cognitive muscle, devolving from craftsmen into uncritical "human wrappers" for broken code, trapped in a cycle of dependency, it shows. Even monoliths like Disney have fallen for the scam, grifted by the promise of frictionless video generation (Sora) [4], only to realize it produces legally toxic, mathematically unusable slop, forcing them to quietly retreat from the hype.
2. The Eradication of Truth and the Closed Loop of Slop
The public is actively rejecting this coerced adoption. A 30% spike in DuckDuckGo installations in a single week is not just because they suddenly developed a better product, it was a mass exodus of users fleeing Google's forced "AI Overviews" [5] instead of traditional search results.
Yet, the monoliths push forward poisoning the well. The transition from SEO to GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) [6] is another herald to the death of critical thinking. When an AI collapses the internet into a single "God Voice", (that's not really singular, nor that I'd wanted it to be, but just as broken) it destroys the human capacity to compare, verify, and question reality. Marketers and bot armies manipulate this closed loop by planting 13-word snippets on Reddit [7] to hijack the machine's absolute answers.
By suffocating the open web, where 93% of "AI-mode" searches result in zero clicks [6] to external websites, the models devour the very ecosystem they rely on. There's no incentive for visitors to actually visit pages, there are no visitors, only bots regurgitating, eating it's vomit, geting sick on it, and regurgitating summaries of it.
Organizations and business that depend on digital community driven efforts are left with no means to gather audiences, yet the content of their digital presence is still harvested
"Zero Click Search results" eradicates the financial oportunity for people who depends on developing digital activities, (like independent journalism, digital art, even local businesses that need to book through their platform for financial or tax reasons) their very livelyhood dependant on digital exchange, is consumed by a machine that regurgitates poisoned data back into their own future training sets. The internet has been turned into a closed loop of self-referential landfill.
The theory of the internet as an empty dead mall also includes what happens when an abandoned mall has it's plumbing overflowing and infrastructure collapsing. It doesn't just look like a clean "liminal" mall we sometimes see in movies and videogames, it looks like a junkyard of human vices and conveniences.
3. The False Prophets vs. True Intellectual Sovereignty
As the bubble bursts, tech executives like Palantir’s Alex Karp [8] and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella [9] have begun loudly warning enterprises to stop handing their proprietary IP over to centralized APIs (Meaning against pouring your life's work, or life, even on chat bots). Do not mistake their panic for ideological alignment, it's just another trap of tech-feudalism. Rather than human, theirs is a battle for data-monopoly control. They do not want to destroy the leash; they simply want to be the ones holding it.
The true desperation of these monoliths is palpable. Because autonomous agents and "AGI" are failing to materialize, companies like Meta have reverted to digital strip-mining, resorting to installing mandatory keystroke-logging spyware on their own engineers' laptops to harvest their labor for model training [10].
The ultimate manifestation of robota: when the machine cannot innovate, it vampirizes the labor and agency of the human to survive. And it was never going to be able to innovate, that was always a marketing lie to push the commerce of real state, to house computer parts, plastic and dangerous chemicals, that are extracted and produced via wars from ocuppied and oppressed countries where nature (including humans) is killed with explossions and fire, as well as with privation and poisoning of resources needed to survive.
Against this, we must define what our participation aligns to. Will we protect a shareholders "moat"; Will we exercise our right to be aware participants in a natural ecosystem that is interacted with in our own terms, terms achieved with the participation of the land and the real (not legal) holders of the land. (These are by no means the two only alternatives, I highlight this to give some perspecive and guide this article)
In a previous article I proposed to think in terms of ALLM, applied large language models, I proposed to use them to interactuar amongst us, since I felt, I feel, that there is a resnposibility, on humans, since it was humans who imposed this technology (and it's cost!) on the planet, why not to try and make something out of it? But it can't be done. Large models don't work. Their own architecture, their own concepttion, is exploitative, consuming, it's a black hole.
The use of this technology, as we saw in the ALLM article, should be small, modular, that uses obsolete technology, that claims remnants of a previous explosion, instead of generating explosions, something like LADSML, Locally Applied Dynamic-Sized Model... this... I do this to try to propose that the size must adjust to the floor and ceiling of sustainability of the environment in which they operate? Fuck, I don't know... I'm thinking as I write. I think the one I like the most, not as technology, but as a paradigm of thinking, is LCM, Locally Coupled Model, a model coupled to the local, embedded in its context.
Let's talk about LCM
Hablemos del LCM
We outright refuse to feed the central server. We reclaim our role as persistant anomalies that operate in between the folds of the extractvist gaze of the machine, forcing it to contend with our logics instead of theirs.
Recent developments prove that the mechanical infrastructure for this sovereignty is already here. DeepSeek’s release of open-source speculative decoding toolkits (DeepSpec and DeepSpark) [11] shifts the advantage from "God-like intelligence" to localized inference speed. It proves that high-capability processing can be run locally, cheaply, and autonomously, severing the dependency on the Silicon Valley API tax, while observing and feeling the requirements of the resources involved with it, and it's sustainability.
However, we must make a crucial distinction: these tools are weapons of local sovereign autonomy, for aware participants, meant to be deployed for context-conscious tasks like regional environmental management or logic validation (examples higlighted on the ALLM article).
We must violently reject their commodification by "any-answer" techbro entrepreneurs, who only view speed-tuning as a way to generate more "slop" faster to sell parasitic automated workflows: just more aspiring slavers.
We also have to recognize that products of the emergent creative tools that find their way to the public derived from the proliferation of this slop churning tools, have a place in the cultural manifestation or expression of certain regions.
These are tools of the same slaveholders attempting to validate the existence of the parasitic system, trying to deliver "art" or "culture" that is complacent, low-effort, and low-result, which help to steal belonging and meaning, to deterritorialize, to occupy by military means, used to keep communities bowing their heads, to keep them enslaved to tools that produce and consume in a way more accelerated pace than the unwilling participants (who are cornered into having no other forms of expression and interaction) can appreciate and grow with; it's more flooding of the poisoned well with more poison. "False Prohets" beget in this case, ouruborous pseudo manifestations of the community, that only operate when someone is in the slaver's chair, and many on the other side of the whip.
4. Escape Strategy for Slaver States Heads, and Erosion Erasure for Slaves
While the cloud implodes, the physical architecture of the slave-state continues to expand. AI surveillance operates as a panopticon in our streets, utilizing systems like Flock Safety [12] cameras to track movement without public consent, turning public spaces into managed zones where human presence is treated as an "optimization error." The first wave of resistance is already here, seen in city governments fighting back by throwing black garbage bags over the lenses [13].
In the workplace, automation is explicitly designed to squeeze and displace the working class. Restructurings like FedEx's Network 2.0 [14] use algorithmic "efficiency" as a veil to eliminate human stability and consolidate power away from workers on the ground.
When faced with deteriorating digital environments and the rapid degradation of quality, forced users of digital slave camps (be it as users or creators) are typically forced into a binary response: they can either quietly abandon the platform entirely (withdrawing their participation and labor), or they can vocalize their discontent from within the system in hopes of forcing structural reform. However, this traditional dynamic of abandonment versus dissent has been neutralized by the algorithmic monopolies. Dissent is merely absorbed as engagement data, nd abandonment is nearly impossible when the platforms hold a monopoly on professional visibility and what seem to be alternatives are another name and another user interface, of the same system underneath, and a lot of the times even the same owners.
Billionaires like Peter Thiel move to Argentina [15], treating the Global South as a libertarian playground to purchase sovereign immunity and private fortresses, entirely removed from the consequences of their technology. This exposes their sudden championing of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and wealth funds for exactly what it is: guillotine insurance. They see the pitchforks. They are offering redistribution after the disruption purely to prevent public oversight during the deployment, and since the slavers chair needs to be ocuppied, they just promote these systems that would support this IBU-type initiatives, that is to say, another head of their solutions monopoly.
Are there paths?
If the centralized and monolithic paradigm of AI is structurally designed to extract and homogenize, resistance occurs through operations of inherent sabotage; it must be rooted in intentional and human-centered friction. We're saying human-centric to reinforce our responsibility and part in this, not to say the result, mindset or framework must be anthropocentric.
Combating a slow burning nuclear holocaust like the one we started living in since industrialization, requires a fundamental shift in how creators, practitioners, and organizations operate within the digital ecology:
Reevaluating What is The Context I'm Participating In, and Figuring out what Spontaneous and Inspired could look like in a "figured out" super taxonomized world:
The expectation to remain relevant in a hyper-competitive art scene and the anxiety of not transcending their previous work pushes many creatives to adopt LLM generative tools out of a fear of missing out (FOMO) To engage in usage from an interface of a passive consumer: "I can do prompts" or "I make digital art, I might as well make AI art"; This ambition is often a trap by the same technoslavers I've mentioned in this article.
A review of what "relevance" and "transcendence" is in the "art scene" is welcomed, but most of all what constitutes this "art scene", is it the same speculative, supremacist, eugenetic principles of the push for a "self regulated" market that is indeed regulated from the top down by marketeetrs and profiteers that treat it the same as other speculative markets just to mine interaction, time on screen watching ads, engagement? is it perhaps a community building endeavor, is it perhaps a purely self-affirming impulse, what does "relevance" and "transcendence" look in any (or several) of those commercial scenarios?
As the technological medium becomes increasingly automated, and all data from the world is unveiled, the human imagination remains one of the differentiators (That we know of). Countering algorithmic predictability requires reviewing habits of legacy artists who viewed their work not as mere output, but as a summatory reflection of their evolution, how they belong collectively to past, present and future. To the artists of the future, what do artists look like when all the chips in the world stop working and not only can slop not be made by dictating insecurities to a digital slave, but also the digital files where speculators have the costs and locations of the most expensive works are lost? What does it look like to make art? What is classical art? What is art in that future? It is not an invitation to have a definitive answer, because it is impossible. Just like god, happiness, love, freedom, art does not exist either. The question is one to spark conversation and counter those techno-oligarchs who tell us that those absolutes not only exist, but that they have them classified in an Excel spreadsheet.
If you are simply duplicating or generating perfectly, without error, without letting your work be contaminated by your context, by your understanding or lack of understanding of your environment, attaching an authentic, lived experience, you might be contributing to the noise... or perhaps not making enought noise.
The structural counter to a transactional digital economy can look like a return to localized, emotional, intellectual, spiritual connection. EThe modern push for "networking" forces creators to view human interaction through the lens of return on investment, measuring peers by their follower counts and access, or their publications, maybe indexed publications, or titles, or sales, sold works, these networks are transactional, they happen in techno-feudal-lords grounds (or other local or regional slave masters), earning them the most dividends, and they collapse when opportunities for the lord dry up
To counter this we can start building kin, communities, societies, relationships, maybe they are spiritual in the sense that the emotional and the aspect of the unknown and the esoteric participation with nature is real, rooted in sustainability of resources, and thriving in small, intimate, and physically grounded spaces.
Dynamic Resistance and Creation on All Flanks:
We are witnessing an era where users attempt to consume more "slop" to find their way out of the slop, completely lacking the foundational tools to discern features, concepts and relationships, both simple and complex, that might occur and enhance the very same deepening of interaction with the very nature that forms us and encompasses us all.
The attention economy has weakened our tolerance for cognitive variety, it only has two features: fast and dumb, all other characteristics and nuances are eroding.
Countering this might benefit from reinstating classical disciplines: reading difficult, long-form texts, embracing the friction of complex arguments, and refusing to outsource the struggle of thought to an AI. A body in use (even with it's "intangible" features) is an eon proved defense against atrophy and extinction.
To fight an empire of extraction, creators must become highly adaptable. This means taking a multidisciplinary approach, that means giving more weight to various endeavors, dynamic in their variety, expansive in their demands, than to specialization, or profoundization of things that can be labeled, absorbed, being aware of technology as interconnected tools of rebellion. The goal is not just to produce knowledge or content or art or concepts or blogs, but to chip away from the monolith by speaking directly to the co-participants and considering the mechanical nature of the system.
Survival can depend on specializations. We see it in nature, from molecular formations, to birds, to galaxies, but we also see in the natural universe the thriving of non hyper-specialized entities, in our current labor climate, the specialized worked (who profiles themselves as a cog replaced by an automation they themselves trained), finds survival harder than those that possess cross-field knowledge, enabling them to participate and exchange ideas about specialties without being tethered exclusively to one.
y maintaining a broad, adaptable cognitive architecture, generalists, while still subject to be absorbed by the machine, might pivot, jump, and zig-zag within and without "disruptive innovation" because they understand various whys and the hows across multiple domains, rather than just executing a singular task
They might still succumb to the machine, we all will, but a zombie side might still emerge and scavenge remains to re-embody functionalities, identities, purposes. This could be a way of the life after life.
Conclusion: Measuring Ourselves Out of Fascism
Scale without accountability is tyranny. A trillion-dollar empire built on false safety data, panopticon vigilantism, where the public is not well informed nor equipped to deal with the deception of deepfakes, overprotected but anti-nature IP's, and environmental destruction is inherently self destructive
The path forward is not to abandon computation, but to adopt plural, regional, autonomous, context-conscious, and sovereign thinking against the monolith. We need deliberate, modular, LCMs operating as grounded physical utilities. We need strict limitations on extraction for digital purposes.
Above all, we must embrace the Human as Participant. We do not need a superintelligence. We need the ability to reflect on our own actions, to root out the "slaver" (and slave) mentality within ourselves, and to recognize that we are part of a mesh of neighboring forces in a shared ecosystem.
Our ultimate resistance lies in our capacity to be aware participants of the machine and corrupting it's logics from within. Instead of offering our intellect, our data, our labor (or refusing to offering them, this also constitutes our attention and engagement with the machine, it's still praying to that "digital god") as pure fuel, instead we inyect the system with noise, error, ambiguity, contradiction, in an attempt to bing instability it's categories of truth.
We are forced to inhabit it's cogs to render them inefficient, erratics, ungovernable, forcing he machine to process a reality that, resisting to be capitalized, breaks it's pretention of totality.
By participating actively, we turn each interaction in an act of sabotage, forcing the system to process data that disarticulate it's categories of control and optimization.
Our ultimate resistance implies transforming our role, stop being fuel, and turning into persistent anomalies that render the predictive capacity of the algorithm useless, forcing it's structure to colapse under it's own lack of efficiency.
We go from being the fuel in the tank, to be the sugar in the tank.
[1] 36Kr, "Lost about 260 billion in a year, OpenAI's 'money-burning machine' can't stop"
https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3856789405160455
[2] MarketScale, "AI cost reality bites: Uber, Starbucks, and the enterprise ROI reckoning"
[3] The American Bazaar, "Tesla limits employee AI spending at $200 per week"
[4] Milvus, "When is Sora being fully discontinued?"
https://milvus.io/ai-quick-reference/when-is-sora-being-fully-discontinued/
[5] "DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30% as Users Reject Being Force Fed Google AI Search"
[6] Briefs, "Google's AI search overhaul just sent DuckDuckGo installs up 30%"
https://www.briefs.co/news/googles-ai-search-overhaul-just-sent-duckduckgo-installs-up-30/
[6] Hey AI - "AI search has a problem nobody’s talking about… and it can’t be fixed"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ8bhXreJBo&t=21s
Pranjal Aggarwal, Vishvak Murahari, Tanmay Rajpurohit, Ashwin Kalyan, Karthik Narasimhan, Ameet Deshpande: "GEO: Generative Engine Optimization"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09735
[7] 404 Media, "How Brands Use Reddit to Poison AI Search"
[10] Digital Applied, "Alex Karp: 'Tokens That Create No Value' — What He Said"
https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/alex-karp-palantir-tokens-weights-alpha-cnbc-2026
[11] ProMarket, "Satya Nadella's AI Warning Is a Sales Pitch"
https://www.promarket.org/2026/07/01/satya-nadellas-ai-warning-is-a-sales-pitch/
[12] Malwarebytes, "Meta pauses controversial employee-tracking program after security review"
Nick Vogel, "Meta is using it's own employees to train AI" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CXku0cNaW8
[13] VentureBeat, "DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%"
[12] Benn Jordan, "Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras", "We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds"; "This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers"
https://youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQhttps://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY
https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo
[14] CNET, "Cities Can't Figure Out How to Turn Off Flock Cameras, So They're Using Trash Bags"
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/cities-covering-flock-surveillance-cameras-with-trash-bags/
[15] FedEx, "Network 2.0 - Streamlining Your Pickup and Delivery Experience"
https://www.fedex.com/en-us/about/network-2-0.html
[15] NYT "Why Pether Thiel is decamping to the end of the world"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/world/americas/peter-thiel-argentina.html
youtu.be/CSJUnm_rGKo
youtu.be/KZsizKGLNpE
Other sources not numbered, but watched for clarity
[17] Portraits of Another Life, "This Artist Says Ambition Is a Trap"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zIgPUO2cz8
James Corbett - "I was scared of AI until I read Keith Haring’s journals "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIYIm7lgUJU
[19] Val, "Artists Shouldn't Network"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGgO3KJ3FNA
[20] Thinking West, "Brainrot Isn't New — History Shows Us How to Beat It"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfAdmvGgCjQ
[21] Nuggs, "The Genius Everyone Missed: The Greatest Multidisciplinary Artist of Our Time"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Ic6OTgo1Q
[22] Zendicay, "Why Generalists Beat Specialists | Jack of All Trades"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vKUdrNQcI
