The Overton window has become a context window: on EU AI labels as pheromones
Mapkon · reddit · 2026-09-26
A widely-shared essay describes a self-reinforcing loop: workers on both sides of an exchange use AI to write "balanced" messages, machines recognize each other's style, and each model generation is trained on the previous generation's output, inheriting its tone. The EU now requires hidden machine-readable markers on AI text — but those marked texts flow back into training data. The author frames this as "stigmergy": coordination via traces in the environment, no leader, no plan. Punchline: "The Overton window has become a context window."
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