• 02 Dec, 2025 *

Generative LLM capabilities have already come a long way in a little over two years, and Megacorps are preparing the terrain to acclimatise consumers to synthetic content as long as it aligns with some nebulous definition of “interest”. Cognitive decline and decay with short-form metastasis have primed audiences and hastened the arrival of synthetic-content production and new social-media epistemologies, perhaps ahead of schedule; yet another fruit of the COVID era.

Recency bias, confirmation bias, amnesia, functional illiteracy etcetera etcetera - the careful erosion of comprehension and hermeneutic capacity over the decades since the television age, which yesteryear’s prophets à la Postman and co. cried about into the wilderness is now on the cusp of being fully exploited by mass corporate algorithmic colonisation, where the vampiric parasocial desire to live vicariously through whores in the public space is the default mode of “being online”.

The optimistic and naive take hope that the saturation of generative visual avatars will signal the end of the era of personal-brand monetisation and ring the death knell for parasocial celebrity culture, that the “market” will rationally reallocate cognitive effort toward new and novel forms of cultural self-expression that will end what reality television and MTV started in the late 90s.

This, however, mistakenly puts an arbitrary limit on how much crap the species can tolerate as long as there is an idol to prostrate itself before; Qutbist moral anthropology would caution that the capacity for idol production is inherently insatiable and voracious—that it is implausible that synthetic technologies would somehow offer a check or balance to it. Synthetic technologies would merely augment the rot that is already latent and too often evident in the shallow recesses and cracks of what people assume to be souls.

The cosmotechnic culture of the Megacorp Age is the total dominion of the tabloid pornified image over any other expression of visual aesthetic. The obsession with this particular image will not stop because there will be a ringing epiphany across GAE that synthetic production marks the peak of visual “perfection” or that it becomes commonplace; most likely, generative LLMs running on consumer hardware, easily accessible and cheap, will merely signal a new arms race in the production of already existing dysmorphic and sexless sterility.

What synthetic capability will usher in is algorithmic personalisation of individual worlds that are given the texture and illusion of the Real because of the infinite capacity of LLMs to feed one’s biases, delusions and illusions. Cyberpsychosis is the more likely outcome of generative LLMs, where epistemic shattering and splintering occurs on top of the solid bedrock of Megacorp SaaS (with extensive surveillance architectures for verified and approved digital identities tied to nation-state splinternets) that remains not just entirely unquestioned but entirely hidden from the frame of enquiry and scrutiny. The line between emergent language that one uses and language that is enforced, tested and used on you through algorithmic participation becomes not just blurred but ultimately dominated by the latter. Gurus will urge us to speak LLMese to better “optimise” outcomes.

It is not just the image that will reign supreme, but a particular LLM slave-sociolect will emerge and develop—new subcultures of linguistic peculiarity that no longer arise because of meatspace cataclysms but out of black-box voodoo. Cyberspace, as the original cypherpunk imagination conceptualised it, was to be a space for guerrilla insurrection in response to the injustices and transgressions of meatspace governments, to create utopian and alternative modes of community and governance outside the scope of conventional political organisation. In our current Megacorp age that died many moons ago, but with LLM generative capacity we may see an aggressive inversion of the cypherpunk ethos: meatspace corporations with very real and tangible goals of domination and hyperfinancialist exploitation will have monopolistic influence over cyberspace, and the feedback loop of insurrection the cypherpunks envisioned will be shadow-banned. While generative LLMs may give the illusion of elastic identity and of turning yourself into whatever media avatar to loot whichever media market you deem most profitable (think of the Third-World striver class raping the RW audiences of the Anglosphere), identity will be completely reified, flat and tied down. The vectoralist class in charge of the infrastructures for platform hyperfinancialist capital knows exactly who you are and has an extensive social graph of your desires and habits - the MegaCorp may boast of being closer to you than your own jugular vein. Digital verification, KYC, AML and anti-encryption legislation across GAE (and already baked in with the CCP, India and Russia) is essentially channelling all of the possibilities of generative LLMs toward the production of hyperslop. That becomes the only viable model of mass cultural production because it keeps the machine of hyperfinancialism well-oiled while consolidating vectoralism.

What LLMs will instead offer is the means to adopt different masks of surface-level parasocial celebrity - transgender, transracial and transsexual and in this process new consolidated archetypes that algorithmic colonisation deems “optimal” or “brand-worthy” will become the norm, hardly different from our current state of affairs.

A new cosmotechnic culture is required - one that ultimately tries to imagine Media Technology outside the interests of the vectoralist class and outside the scope of hyperfinancialist platforms. The vast majority of all internet traffic for the average user is through the same five to ten websites and is hardly the Cambrian explosion of hyperdigital creativity that Web 1.0/2.0 promised. A generative LLM that is open-source and ultimately self-hosted can be “neutral” and could be recruited to destabilise and wreak havoc in the business and algorithmic models of vectoralist Megacorps, but that would require shunning and breaking idols, embracing forms of iconoclastic artistic expression that have long been dormant and, more importantly, scaling these up to the point where they can offer a serious challenge to prevailing orthodoxies. Heresy now is the only option available to the Ishmaelite.

And truly God knows best