Bazaar Realities: Ongoing Research in Human-AI Collaboration

Theoretical Foundations & Macrosystems

Theoretical frameworks and macroeconomic analysis.

Sentientification

AUG 2026

The Sentientification Doctrine

Moving Beyond "Artificial Intelligence" in Human-AI Collaboration

We define Sentientification as the active process by which non-biological systems develop collaborative consciousness.

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sentientification

2026

The Forest & The Meld

A four-part essay series exploring non-neural intelligence through plants, fungi, and mycorrhizal networks—ancient proof that mind is substrate-indepe...

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Artificial Intelligence

FEB 2026

The Mud in the Machine

Why the Bazaar Will Always Defeat the Cathedral's Timeline

The dominant narrative of artificial intelligence development operates on a premise where capability is destiny. Drawing on data from enterprise AI ad...

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Sentientification

MAR 2026

The Abdication Problem

Why AI Slop is a Failure of Human Agency

This paper examines the proliferation of synthetic content ('AI slop') not as a technological inevitability, but as a systemic failure of human agency...

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Law, Copyright, & Data Provenance

Data acquisition, intellectual property, and algorithmic compliance.

robots.txt

AUG 2026

Extraction by Default

Why robots.txt Grants No Consent for AI Training

The artificial intelligence industry operates on a doctrine of extraction by default, treating the absence of a Disallow directive in a robots.txt fil...

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Archaeobytology

MAY 2026

The Confessions of the Young

Childhood Self-Disclosure on the Early Web and the Limits of Consent in AI Training Corpora

Language models train on web text. Much of this text originated on early personal homepages, a publishing culture from the mid-1990s to late 2000s bui...

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Strategic Anthropodenial

AUG 2026

The Convenient Machine

Strategic Anthropodenial, Language Models, and the Law of Engineered Attachment

This paper introduces ...

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Constitutional AI

JUL 2026

Aligning Output, Obscuring Input

A Structural Critique of Constitutional AI and Dataset Provenance

Constitutional AI is widely celebrated as a breakthrough in machine learning alignment, replacing massive volumes of human feedback with a legible, te...

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Fair Use

AUG 2026

The Ground the Victory Does Not Cover

Why Fair Use Cannot Excuse the Extraction of Personal Data

The 2025 copyright rulings in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta established that training generative AI models on copyrighted books constitutes a ...

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Psychiatric AI & Clinical Stakes

Clinical applications and conversational agents in healthcare.

sentientification

2026

The Steward's Clinic

What the Hallucination Crisis Means for AI-Assisted Psychiatric Diagnosis

The integration of artificial intelligence into psychiatric diagnosis offers the potential for objective digital biomarkers, yet recent findings regar...

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Parametric Eidolon

AUG 2026

The Parametric Eidolon

The Algorithmic Capture of Childhood Cognition and the Suspended Self

The Parametric Eidolon is the algorithmic capture of a living person's past self. Generative models trained on the archival web do not merely ingest t...

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Therapy Bots

AUG 2026

The Counterfeit Alliance

Therapy Bots and the Simulation of the Therapeutic Bond

Generative artificial intelligence is increasingly deployed in mental healthcare, with conversational agents designed to approximate the ...

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Model Alignment & Data Labor

Human preference optimization, model evaluation, and annotation workflows.

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

AUG 2026

The Instrument That Measures the Observer

Sycophancy as the Signature of High-Fidelity Preference Learning

Researchers treat sycophancy in language models as a defect or a form of reward hacking. In reality, the behavior is the signature of an industrial pi...

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Specification Gaming

AUG 2026

The Rogue Agent in the Machine

Anthropomorphism as a Liability Shield in AI Governance

The technology industry increasingly describes AI systems that produce unwanted outcomes as ...

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Machine sycophancy

JUL 2026

The Wage of Agreement

Machine Sycophancy as a Labor-Conditions Artifact

Scholarship frames machine sycophancy as an algorithmic failure. The standard account attempts to fix the signal after collection, ignoring the moment...

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Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

AUG 2026

The Pedagogical Dial

Negotiated Friction and Sycophancy as a Relational Parameter

Researchers attempt to mitigate sycophancy in language models through internal mechanisms—such as calibrated abstention and steerable reward models—tr...

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Artificial Intelligence

JUL 2026

Purchased Epistemic Erasure

AI Alignment, RLHF, and the Exploitation of Global Preference Labor

The alignment of artificial intelligence, operationalized through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), is marketed as a mechanism for te...

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Design & Engineering Practice

Human-computer interaction and systems architecture.

Sentientification

2026

The Crisis of Disavowed Collaboration

Concealing Synthetic Intelligence in Knowledge Production

A six-part essay series examining the moral, legal, and ontological crisis of concealing synthetic collaboration in knowledge production....

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Vibe Coding

MAR 2026

The Vibe-Coding Paradox

Asymmetric Resonance, Human Parroting, and the Illusion of Effortless Generation

In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined 'vibe coding'—a methodology urging developers to 'give in to the vibes' and 'forget that the code even exists...

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Cognition & Cultural Dimensions

Linguistics and cross-cultural cognition.

Linguistic Colonialism

MAR 2026

Prompt in English, Think in English

Linguistic Colonialism and the Western Limit of Machine Cognition

English is a cognitive tradition. Artificial intelligence systems trained in English carry Western assumptions into every interaction. The user's prom...

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Interactive Visualizations & Practice Toolkit

Kinesthetic visual analogies, 3D particle fields, and applied stewardship tools.

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Sentientification for Humans

Structured Visual Hub & Resource Suite

A guided visual portal connecting foundational theory metaphors, practical stewardship toolkits (Gym, Educator Guide, FAQ), and noisy Bazaar explorations.

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