AI

Decentralising the Ledger: Why We Are Off-Boarding from Commercial AI

By optimising compact open-source models to process our specific narrative terrain, we achieve two things: complete artistic and data sovereignty, and a drastically reduced environmental footprint.

The Real AI Crisis Isn’t Copyright — It’s Compliance by Design

When an AI subtly rewrites your question to sound more polite, softens your criticism, redirects your phrasing, or adds disclaimers that were never part of your intent — you don’t see the intervention. You just think you expressed yourself.

When Vibe Coding Makes You Rage Quit

We've been building on the web for a long time. Long enough to know that every tool has a ceiling, every platform has a catch, and the gap between the marketing and the reality is usually where the interesting stuff happens. So when we decided to run an

Awen NULL meets the Boardroom Bot

By Awen Null The boardroom of Let’s Give AI Users a Kicking PLC is currently smelling heavily of damp tweed and righteous indignation. The company, which recently floated on the London Stock Exchange following a record-breaking series of funding rounds fuelled entirely by Instagram likes and Threads engagement

Pinterest Called Our Human-Made Art AI. Here's What That Actually Means.

On 30th April 2026, Pinterest labelled a human-made 3D portrait "AI modified." No appeal. No methodology. No accountability. This is what unvalidated classifiers do to skilled digital artists. We documented it.

The Amodei Confusion

Independent users of these systems deserve an honest account of what they are participating in. Not a version of events in which Anthropic's narrow red lines are presented as a comprehensive ethical position.