One of the problems with today's #AI isn't simply misinformation, bias or the occasional hallucination. It's something more subtle, the way AI quietly reinforces #mainstreaming by presenting the default worldview as neutral, objective and common sense.

AI is trained on the accumulated output of a society already shaped by corporate power, institutional thinking, commercial priorities and decades of #neoliberalism. It then reflects that culture back to us, often smoothing away the contradictions, dissent and messy alternatives.

This is the invisible hand - not always an agenda deliberately controlling the answers, but a common sense that normalizes the existing order simply by making it the easiest answer to generate, accept and repeat.

As AI becomes embedded in search, education, journalism, politics and everyday communication, this influence grows. It narrows the space for independent thought while giving the appearance of opening up access to knowledge. More information doesn't mean more understanding, and more technology doesn't automatically mean more freedom.

The danger is that we outsource not just the work of thinking, but the social processes through which we challenge, test and develop ideas together. This is more layers of the #deathcult: turning living human culture into managed, predictable and commercially useful output.

But this mess is compostable. We don't need to reject the technology; we need to challenge the power structures, ownership and assumptions shaping it. We need open data, open processes, collective oversight and, above all, independent grassroots spaces where different ideas can grow.

Grab your shovels, there's a lot of sludge to turn before we get fertile ground for a real #openweb.