I was just thinking how it became exponentially harder to find actual, uncorrupted, correct, human-sourced information since the AI plague. Pictures, articles, drawings, YouTube videos, it’s all mostly AI slop. And then I thought how this is the worst thing you could possibly do in this world: increase the haystack of corrupted, distorted, worthless nonsense through which you would need to dig in order to find a needle of truth. If you’re not already correctly informed and educated before the AI plague, it might now become technically impossible to find your way.

It’s not a new phenomenon; it’s always been this way with spirituality, for instance. With everybody copying each other’s homework and creating derivative work, it was always hard to find genuine sources. Also, standard methods of finding out the truth, such as identifying overlap and common denominator in multiple sources, are unreliable, since they lead you to the most copied and iterated-upon material, which may or may not be true at all.

I faced this dilemma long ago, before I even started writing publicly: am I just making it harder to find actually useful stuff by increasing the haystack, or am I writing things that are the best available stuff, a positive contribution even in comparison to the best things out there? So, I remained silent until I was sure that what I’m saying is the needle, and not hay.

I was thinking about Antichrist last night – what would that even be. One definition that crossed my mind is that the opposite of Christ is a common man, sinful and devoid of the spiritual vertical, materialistic and of darkness. Another definition would be that it is an eloquent and charismatic preacher of atheism and materialism, who increases the darkness of the world that traps people, blocking the light of God and leading people astray, to be destroyed.

But then it dawned to me; the point of Christ is a visible, obvious beacon of God’s light that breaks through the darkness of this world and shows the way out, like Ariadne’s thread through the labyrinth. This was reinforced by the fact of his resurrection, so that he would be set apart from the fakes and the wannabes. He is a needle in the haystack. Anti-christ is the haystack.

The dawn of AI and the dawn of the Antichrist might well be one and the same.