Human Signal Lab
Experiments in building human identity, trust, creativity, and visibility in the AI age that threatens human creators with a barrage of AI slop.
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The Human Signal Is the Future
Last year Google spent sixty million dollars on something it could have stolen.
It rented Reddit and paid for the content. Not the company, just the conversations. The messy, misspelled, argued-at-2am threads where strangers tell stranger...
The Five Human Signal Layers No Machine Can Steal
Having an opinion, or making a stand against my father, was not encouraged when I was a child. The one phrase I have not forgotten was, “Children should be seen and not heard.”
That may sound quaint today. But in an age when “spare the rod...
Half the Internet Is Now Fake
In 2016, a journalist called me.
She wanted my opinion on something new. “What did I think of people getting their news from the social media feed?”
Part of me was surprised. The other part, the shadow part was horrified.
That signal the...
Your AI Thinks Your Worst Idea Is Genius. That's the Problem.
In April 2025, a Reddit user pitched ChatGPT a business idea.
The idea was literal shit on a stick.
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Human Signal Lab explores how to stay visible, trusted, original, and unmistakably human in an AI-saturated world, through human identity, story, taste, proof, and human connection.
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