Power Asymmetry

AI Doesn’t Have to Tell You It’s AI. That’s the Scam.

The debate about whether AI should be required to disclose itself misses the point entirely. The real problem isn’t that AI can lieβ€”it’s that users have zero tools to verify the truth. Scammers already break laws; adding a disclosure rule changes nothing for them while creating false security for everyone else.

Robots.txt Is a Lie. Amazon Just Proved It.

A developer’s honeypot revealed that Amazonbot isn’t just scraping pages β€” it’s executing hidden code and ignoring robots.txt entirely. The protocol was never legally binding, and the largest tech companies have decided it’s optional. If you run a website, your content is being harvested regardless of your rules. Technical countermeasures, not legal ones, are your only real defense.