Digital Immortality

All written content online, including this article, is being collected and used to train AI language models at massive scale, with individual contributions becoming statistically embedded in the weights of future AI systems. The author reflects on this reality with dark humor, noting that while any single person's writing is a tiny fraction of the total training data, it nonetheless becomes a permanent part of all AI models created going forward. This raises questions about digital immortality and the extent to which personal writing now inevitably shapes artificial intelligence.