Just watched the CrockPit podcast with Ross Thorpe, CEO of Ruverse, and I had to stop and sit with it for a minute.
He said something that I haven't been able to shake since:
The average 18-year-old today may die with more machine-generated content and other people's memories in their heads than their own.
Let that land.
We are not just consuming content anymore. We are slowly replacing our own inner world with someone else's or something else's.
Here are the numbers Ross shared, and they are not comfortable reading:
71% of images uploaded daily right now are AI-generated. Non-human internet activity has crossed 54.7%. On some platforms, nearly half the accounts are bots. And over 50% of any text longer than 100 words online is machine-written.
The internet as we knew it is already gone. Most of what you scroll through today was never created by a human being.
But what really stopped me was the MIT and Oxford research Ross cited. Just 10 minutes of using an LLM to solve a problem is enough to reduce your critical thinking and make you more likely to give up the moment the AI is taken away.
Use it or lose it. That applies to your brain too.
Ross's answer to all of this is building a human-only platform with no AI content, no bots, chronological feeds, and identity verification. His argument is simple: if the whole internet is becoming a machine, we need to deliberately carve out spaces that are still genuinely human.
That idea resonates deeply with me because it is exactly the problem Chirpper was built to solve.
Verified humans. Real conversations. No algorithmic manipulation. No bots pretending to be people.
Ross also made a philosophical point that I think gets overlooked in every AI conversation. He asked: does what you are doing create a ripple of goodness in the world? Spending hours consuming machine-made content, he argues, does not.
And I think he is right.
The most radical thing you can do on the internet in 2026 is simply be a real human being and find spaces where other real humans are doing the same.
That is the whole fight. And it is worth having.
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As someone with a few near 18 year old kids, this touches home - and not in a good way. What tf kind of world are we building for our kids?
That is true with everything in life. Maybe we should just get rid of Ai. To be honest, it's nice and all but the cost is not worth the reward.
Now that is why I'm here on this "Just Be Human" social place.
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I have teenage nieces and nephews and I am worried about their internet experience when a lot of content is AI.
What can we do?
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With AI generated content being at an all time high, this is not conspiratorial, it is already happening. We need more human-centric spaces more than ever.
In as much as we have all these tools available, we should also make more effort to try doing things that we were doing before the rapid rise of AI assistance.
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