Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

There sure used to be! Funny thing is, it keeps getting smaller, doesn't it? And all the people walking around out in it are on their phones, building and synthesizing their worldviews entirely from what they read on the Internet. Every real-world fact, every observation, is filtered through this placental mass, consumed and cleaned and put away in the language and ideologies of the day. For any other treatment would render them wholly inscrutable.

Weird, that the real world now fits inside the synthetic one. Bourdain lost to Bourdieu.

Crazy how AI just casually wrote someone out of existence. Have you checked if your own digital footprint is safe from hallucinations?

Cliff Stoll himself was still enthusiastically promoting the Klein bottle, but AI had already written the obituary for him. The absurdity of this situation lies in the fact that AI's delusion is no longer merely fabricating "the opinions of some unknown expert", but has begun to create the state of life and death for real people. If even the death information of the author himself can be generated out of thin air and spread, then the "facts" about whether "someone is still alive" or "someone has passed away" on the Internet will completely lose their credibility.