Generative AI is changing more than how information is produced. It is altering the ecology in which human expression is created, circulated, and judged.
Part II of Stalking Aristotle in AI descends into the degraded rhetorical agora, where AI slop, AI beige, bot traffic, and synthetic feedback loops threaten the open web’s human substrate. It examines what happens as humans adapt themselves to machine legibility—and why distinctiveness, risk, and judgment may become the scarce forms of authority.