Finally a video essay that's not written by AI!

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Thank you Wildgrain for sponsoring. Visit http://wildgrain.com/EMBERS and use code EMBERS at checkout to receive $30 off your first box PLUS free Croissants for life! Spotify Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7JoJYDwbvKSodEsW28WYDK?si=R6NHAwH7S2Gg1XwENzOM3A Find me on tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@ashleyembers MERCH https://ashley-embers-shop.fourthwall.com/ Time Stamps 00:00 - intro 01:42 - pay no attention to that agent behind the curtain 08:28 - Wildgrain 10:27 - I compute, therefore I am 21:01 - for the love of humanity 29:57 - final thoughts References & Resources The Silent Invasion: How AI Is Reshaping Our Lives Without Us Noticing https://medium.com/profit-pulse/the-silent-invasion-how-ai-is-reshaping-our-lives-without-us-noticing-7f5c57114dd5 AI Is Everywhere Now, and It’s Absolutely Losing Its Mind https://medium.com/@allanandida/ai-is-everywhere-now-and-its-absolutely-losing-its-mind-31158b641a89 Is Sienna Rose an AI Singer? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sienna-rose-ai-singer-spotifys-viral-top-50-songs-detected-flagged-computer-generated-1772084 AI 'slop' is transforming social media https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wx2dz2v44o Why Does A.I. Write Like … That? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html The mental tyranny of AI writing https://meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental-tyranny-of-ai-writing Is AI Writing as Bad as Bad Writing? https://medium.com/illumination/is-ai-writing-as-bad-as-bad-writing-96975ae18324 ChatGPT Shaming Is Making Our Writing So Much Worse https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-shaming-paranoia-writing.html We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI https://lithub.com/were-already-at-risk-of-ceding-our-humanity-to-ai/ We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb3uK-_QkOo The Problem With Using AI in Your Personal Life https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/02/ai-etiquette-friends/685858/ Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI https://amzn.to/4rwJ6ti The Silent Invasion: How AI Is Reshaping Our Lives Without Us Noticing - https://medium.com/profit-pulse/the-silent-invasion-how-ai-is-reshaping-our-lives-without-us-noticing-7f5c57114dd5 Contact Me My name is ashley, if you didn't know ;) https://www.instagram.com/ashley_embers_ Email: [email protected] Business Inquiries: [email protected] 🎵 Copyrighted music licensed from Lickd. https://lickd.co Welcome to The Internet by Bo Burnham, https://t.lickd.co/l/9WbnBpQWbZ2 https://artlist.io/clear-content-claims/76d165b4-8792-40c8-99a7-4d3db24b8cb6?accessCode=ac2de306-6188-43ae-a88d-47c117b829d3 #AI #AIinvasion #AItakeover #AIparanoia #AIslop #AIwriting #slop #videoessay #motherhoodinprogress