I wrote the post and have been working in and researching in the space for a decade and truly did spend a decade making a movie about this because I think it's an existential threat to humanity, but sure.
BLIT was awesome. Reread it recently after watching the Black Mirror Playthings episode on it most recently.
I don't really use a ChatGPT subscription so I have Claude Code create a few versions of an image in different styles. I mentioned it especially because evolving from prompting an image to automated prompting loops matches some of the recent changes that we've been talking about.
I wrote the article, I really have been working and researching in the space for a decade and can share similar articles published online long before LLMs.
Be careful with messing under the hood on this one. I’ve used this feature in the finder for years, but recently used fclones to replace all my duplicate files with clones on my Mac, and completely messed up my free space. Months later, some programs see 1TB free and others see almost nothing.