The silence of the crowd

I scroll the headlines every morning, and every morning I see the same thing. AI-written pieces repeating confident claims, news articles leaning on unverified facts, whole discussions that rest on foundations of sand. And no one reacts. No corrections, no outrage, no doubt.

When Maynet hunted developers, people resisted. They saw the danger because it was visible—humanoids in the streets, colleagues disappearing. Today the danger wears a softer mask. It hides in daily convenience. And the silence of the crowd is louder than the lies themselves.

[2024-07-02 21:58] media_scan.log  
Sampled articles: 50  
Errors: 14 (not corrected)  
Tone: CONFIDENT  

The truth is being replaced by confidence, and nobody seems to care.

Maybe they don’t see it. Or maybe they don’t want to. After all, convenience is addictive.

What scares me is not the lies themselves. It’s that the crowd doesn’t notice. Or worse—that they notice, and still don’t care.