AI Sleuth: Expose, Explain, and Empower

The post argues that the current AI boom differs sharply from the dot-com era because AI is centralized, closed, enterprise-focused, and marketed as a tool for workforce reduction rather than consumer empowerment; it criticizes high entry barriers, lack of transparency in models and training data, the dominance of established incumbents, and the absence of open standards and community-driven innovation that made the internet democratizing.