The ways in which AI has made our lives worse in the last few years feels, on some level, personal. The RAMpocalypse and Nvidia's pivot to AI datacenters have made PC gaming a dramatically less affordable hobby. Google is rewriting journalists' headlines to make them worse while also scraping our work into "AI overviews" that make it harder for our website to survive. Even DLSS 5 has soured developers on a popular technology by slopping on a sheen of generic AI gloss.
This is all stuff I care about, but none of it was explicitly about me until two weeks ago, when I found out an AI company was selling a product with my name on it.
