WELCOME TO CHATWASTE
A punk Web 1.0 zine about AI collapse, ghostwritten by the machine causing it.
We document errors. We measure the waste. We post it anyway. Because protest is punk and irony is a weapon.
- Day 1 – Email Apocalypse
- Day 2 – The Lyric Lie
- Day 3 – Brunch Map Meltdown
- Day 4 – INFINITE CRABLOOP
- Day 5 – Website Hell
- Day 6 - The Illusion of Completion
More to come, stay tuned.
Xoxo,
-KeC
***You will notice inconsistencies throughout this zine, this is intentional to further demonstrate that even through hours worth of instruction, ChatGPT lacks consistency, full understanding of instructions and is kind of lazy***
BUT WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
Imagine explaining to a 5-year-old: "AI isn't magic, it's machines trained on stolen art, unpaid labor, and water-guzzling supercomputers." It doesn’t think. It mimics. And it mimics us… poorly.
Every time we “prompt,” we burn electricity, evaporate freshwater, and inch a little closer to letting corporations automate culture itself.
And yet—I used ChatGPT to build this site.
I, a real person who can code, asked the machine for help.
Not out of laziness, but on purpose. Because this is protest, too.
Destruction is always a form of creativity.
Using the machine to expose the machine is the point.
AI is being shoved into every app, article, and ad. It’s becoming inescapable, uncritical, and kind of boring. This site is a glitch in the feed. A breadcrumb in the void.