Being part of the AI resistance means using the system against itself.

You want to communicate complex ideas with other humans, but you don’t want to feed the AI your conversation.

In-person notes are not always an option. Neither is going off the grid – it’s too late for that. You’ve been online for decades now, leaving a digital footprint miles wide. 

AI is everywhere and there’s no escaping it. But you and some of the other Analogs have a system. 

Being part of the resistance requires savvy, ingenuity, like-mindedness, even a penchant for nonsense. It has taken years to build the system, but now it works quite well.

Your first move? 

Watching a particular YouTube video, then sharing it on your social media accounts. 

This time, you choose an Avengers video. Last time, you shared a music video, Eisenfunk’s “Pong.”

To the AI, you’re just engaging the media, doing what millions of people do every day. No big deal to the AI. 

But it’s actually a signal to the other human Analogs: Pay attention to the title of the video, there is more coming. Let us play pong, as the lyrics say.

Then you log into a different streaming music service. You set your account to public so that your contacts can see what you are listening to at any given time. This is where the real communication happens, this is where you can talk freely. Not through messaging – that would be too overt. 

You communicate through song titles. When you listen to a song, it shows up in your “listening now” window. Likewise, you can see what songs your contacts are listening to. You have whole conversations this way, evading both the AI and governmental surveillance.

You’re not “liking” anything your contacts do. You’re not contributing in any digitally obvious way to conversation. 

It is passive resistance, but resistance nonetheless. Human to human.

A lifeline.

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