Articles
Thinking on AI search, image discoverability, metadata infrastructure, and creator rights in an automated world.
August 2026
EU AI Act Article 50 Is Now Enforceable. Here's What It Actually Says. →
The discourse has been a mix of panic, oversimplification, and outright misinformation. Here is what the regulation actually requires — and what it doesn't.
July 2026
VISID - Small Test. Interesting Signal. →
A controlled Pinterest test using six matched image pairs — stamped with VISID metadata vs. no metadata. Five of six pairs went to the stamped version. One didn't. Both results are interesting.
July 2026
Empty Vessel in a Sea of Images →
97% of images on the internet have no identity. They lose their meaning the moment they leave the page that gave them context. AI is about to make that gap impossible to ignore.
May 2026
Images Were Never Built for Machines →
The internet learned to read text in the 1990s. It never learned to read images. That gap has existed quietly for decades. It's about to matter.