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The Unregulated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Monopoly, Power, and Surveillance-Capitalism

They are the logical endpoint of letting tech giants govern themselves.

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Rxan Smith
Jan 20, 2026
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How five unelected billionaires own your data, your thoughts, your elections, and now the future of intelligence itself, while we scroll like lobotomized lab rats calling it “progress.”

Picture this:

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You wake up in the morning, and before you leven piss, you grab that little rectangle of glowing doom.

It already knows you overslept because it tracked your toss and turn nightmare about the rent. It knows you’re stressed because your heart rate spiked when you read that news notification it pushed to you at 3 a.m. It knows what porn you watched last night, what job you’re secretly applying for, what medical symptom you googled at 2:47 a.m. and never told a soul.

And now it’s getting smart enough to finish your sentences, generate your voice, fake your face, and maybe o…

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