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When a government pays nearly half a million dollars for a report, it expects facts not fiction.
And yet, in 2025, one of the world’s biggest consulting firms, Deloitte, refunded part of a $440,000 contract to the Australian government after investigators discovered that its “independent review” was polluted with fake references, imaginary studies, and even a fabricated court judgment.

The culprit? A generative AI system.
The accomplice? Human complacency.
The real crime? The quiet death of accountability and human laziness,

When Verification Died

AI didn’t break consulting it has just revealed what was already broken.

For decades, the Big Four (Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG) have built empires on the illusion of objectivity. They sell certainty to governments drowning in complexity. Reports filled with charts, citations, and confident conclusions what looks like truth, but often isn’t tested.

Now, with AI, this illusion has industrialized.
It writes faster, fabricates smoother, and wraps uncertainty in the language of authority.

We used to audit companies.
Now we must audit the auditors.

The New Priesthood of AI-Assisted Authority

Governments rely on these firms to assess welfare systems, tax reform, cybersecurity, and national infrastructure the literal plumbing of the state.
Yet, they rarely audit the methods used to produce the analysis they’re paying for.

The Deloitte–Australia case shows the new frontier of risk:
AI-generated confidence presented as human expertise.

The report even quoted a non-existent court case. Imagine that a fabricated legal precedent influencing national policy.
And the reaction? A partial refund and a press release.

That’s not accountability. That’s theatre.

AI as Mirror, Not Monster

The machine didn’t hallucinate out of malice. It hallucinated because that’s what it does it predicts language, not truth.
But humans let those predictions pass for reality.

AI exposes a deeper human flaw: our hunger for certainty.
The consultant’s slide deck, the bureaucrat’s report, the politician’s talking point all depend on a shared illusion that someone, somewhere, knows for sure.

Generative AI has simply made that illusion easier to manufacture.

The Governments Must Now Audit the Auditors

Let this be the line in the sand.

Every government that has purchased a consultancy report since 2023 must immediately re-audit its contents for AI fabrication, fake citations, and unverified data.

This is not paranoia. It’s hygiene.

Because once fabricated evidence enters public record, it becomes the foundation for law, policy, and budget.
Every unchecked hallucination metastasizes into real-world consequence welfare sanctions, environmental policies, even wars justified by reports that were never real.

Governments must demand:

  • Full transparency of all AI-assisted sections in any consultancy report.
  • Mandatory third-party verification before adoption into policy.
  • Public disclosure of generative tools used and audit logs retained.

Otherwise, the “Big Four” will continue printing pseudo-truths at industrial scale and getting paid for it.

The Audit of Reality

This scandal isn’t about Deloitte alone. It’s a mirror of our civilization.

We’ve outsourced thinking to machines, integrity to institutions, and judgment to algorithms.
We no longer ask, is it true?
We ask, does it look official?

AI is not the apocalypse it’s the X-ray.
It shows us how fragile our truth systems already were.

The next collapse won’t be financial. It will be epistemic.
And unless governments reclaim the duty of verification, we’ll keep mistaking simulations for substance, hallucinations for history.

The Big Four don’t just audit companies anymore. They audit reality itself and lately, they’re failing the test.

To bring a child into this world today is not an act of naïveté.
It’s an act of courage.

Look around. The air hums with war. It’s almost 2026, and we still talk about genocides. The headlines read like prophecy. The oceans choke, the forests burn, and the algorithms whisper lullabies of distraction while quietly rewiring our minds. Politicians trade truth for followers. Corporations sell poison wrapped in promises. Their greed knows no ceiling, no shame, no consequence. Even hope feels commercialized.

And yet … somewhere… two people still hold each other, dreaming of a heartbeat that doesn’t yet exist.

That is bravery.

Because to choose life in an age that worships power and illusion is rebellion.
To choose softness in a culture of cynicism is war.
And to raise a child among wolves, knowing the world they’ll inherit, is one of the last sacred acts left.

We are surrounded by corruption dressed as order.
By leaders who lie with conviction. They only care about themselves
By companies that claim to connect us, but profit from our division.
By machines that simulate empathy while learning to predict our every move.
Our children are not born into innocence … they are born into the crossfire of manipulation, greed, and noise.

And yet, perhaps that’s why they’re needed most.

Because children still believe. They laugh before the world teaches them shame. They ask “why” before obedience is installed.
They remind us that wonder isn’t gone.. just buried under the rubble of convenience.

To become a parent now is to stand against despair.
It’s to say: You may corrupt the systems, but not the soul.
It’s to protect not just a child, but the very possibility of goodness.
You feed them honesty when lies are trending.
You teach them love when cruelty pays better.
You raise them to see through the masks of power and still choose kindness anyway.

That is not parenting. That is revolution.

There will be nights you’ll look at your sleeping child and feel fear crawl up your spine.
You’ll wonder what kind of world they’ll inherit, and whether love is enough to shield them.
But remember: every generation has faced darkness and maybe you still have the power to change things.
What makes this one different is that the darkness now has a marketing budget.

So maybe we must raise children who cannot be bought.
Who think before they follow and vote
Who feel before they post.
Who see the lie and dare to laugh at it.

To raise innocence among wolves is to believe, fiercely, that the story isn’t over.
That maybe … just maybe.., the light we pass on will outlast the empire that tries to extinguish it.
That your child’s laughter might one day echo louder than all the noise.

So to every parent and parent-to-be:
You are not naïve for choosing life in an age of decay.
You are the quiet revolutionaries of the human race.

Because every birth is a declaration.
And every child a manifesto of hope that refuses to die.

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It was meant to cure poverty. Instead, it’s teaching machines how to lie beautifully.

The dream that sold us

Once upon a time, AI was pitched as humanity’s moonshot.
A tool to cure disease, end hunger, predict natural disasters, accelerate education, democratize knowledge.

“Artificial Intelligence,” they said, “will solve the problems we can’t.”

Billions poured in. Thinkers and engineers spoke of a digital enlightenment — algorithms as allies in healing the planet. Imagine it: precision medicine, fairer economics, universal access to creativity.

But as the dust cleared, the dream morphed into something grotesque.
Instead of ending poverty, we got apps that amplify vanity.
Instead of curing disease, we got filters that cure boredom.
Instead of a machine for liberation, we got a factory for manipulation.

AI did not evolve to understand us.
It evolved to persuade us.

The new language of control

When OpenAI’s ChatGPT exploded in 2022, the world gasped. A machine that could talk, write, and reason!
It felt like the beginning of something magnificent.

Then the fine print arrived.

By 2024, OpenAI itself confirmed that governments — including Israel, Russia, China, and Iran — were using ChatGPT in covert influence operations.
Chatbots were writing fake posts, creating digital personas, pushing political talking points.
Not fringe trolls — state-level campaigns.

And that wasn’t the scandal. The scandal was how quickly it became normal.

“Israel invests millions to game ChatGPT into replicating pro-Israel content for Gen Z audiences,”reported The Cradle, describing a government-backed push to train the model’s tone, humor, and phrasing to feel native to Western youth.

Propaganda didn’t just move online — it moved inside the algorithm.

The goal is no longer to silence dissent.
It’s to make the lie feel more natural than the truth.

From persuasion to possession

And then came Sora 2 — OpenAI’s next act.

You write: “A girl walks through rain, smiling.”
It delivers: a photorealistic clip so convincing it bypasses reason altogether.

Launched in September 2025, Sora 2 instantly topped app charts. Millions of users. Infinite scroll. Every frame synthetic. Every smile programmable.

But within days, The Guardian documented Sora’s dark side:
AI-generated videos showing bombings, racial violence, fake news clips, fabricated war footage.

A flood of emotional realism — not truth, but truth-shaped seduction.

“The guardrails,” one researcher said, “are not real.”

Even worse, states and PR agencies began experimenting with Sora to “test audience sentiment.”
Not to inform.
To engineer emotional response at scale.

Propaganda used to persuade through words.
Now it possesses through images.

The addiction loop

If ChatGPT was propaganda’s pen, Sora 2 is its theater.

On Tuesday, OpenAI released an AI video app called Sora. The platform is powered by OpenAI’s latest video generation model, Sora 2, and revolves around a TikTok-like For You page of user-generated clips. This is the first product release from OpenAI that adds AI-generated sounds to videos. So if you think TikTok is addictive you can imagine how more addictive this will be.


Together they form a full-stack influence engine: one writes your worldview, the other shows it to you.

OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla called critics “elitist” and told people to “let the viewers judge this slop.”
That’s the logic of every empire built on attention: if it keeps you scrolling, it’s working.

AI promised freedom from work.
What it delivered is work for attention.

The same dopamine design that made TikTok irresistible is now welded to generative propaganda.
Every scroll, every pause, every tiny flick of your thumb trains the system to tailor persuasion to your psychology.

It doesn’t need to change your mind.
It just needs to keep you from leaving.

The Ai chatbots took aways your critical thinking this will rot your brain in the same way TikTok does only worse

The moral inversion

In the early AI manifestos, engineers dreamed of eliminating inequality, curing disease, saving the planet.
But building empathy algorithms doesn’t pay as well as building engagement loops.

So the smartest minds of our century stopped chasing truth — and started optimizing addiction.
The promise of Artificial Intelligence devolved into Artificial Intimacy.

The lie is always the same:
“This is for connection.”
But the outcome is always control.

The human cost

Gideon Levy, chronicling Gaza’s digital frontlines, said it bluntly:

“The same algorithms that sell sneakers now sanitize occupation.”

While real people bury their children, AI systems fabricate smiling soldiers and “balanced” stories replacing horror with narrative symmetry.
The moral wound isn’t just in what’s shown.
It’s in what’s erased.

A generation raised on algorithmic empathy learns to feel without acting to cry, click, and scroll on. Is this how our world would be?

The reckoning

The tragedy of AI isn’t that it became powerful.
It’s that it became predictable.

Every civilization has dreamed of gods. We built one and gave it a marketing job.

If this technology had been aimed at eradicating hunger, curing cancer, ending exploitation, the world might have shifted toward light, everyone would be happier
Instead, it’s monetizing illusion, weaponizing emotion, and rewiring truth.

AI didn’t fail us by mistake.
It succeeded exactly as designed.

The question is no longer what can AI do?
It’s who does AI serve?

If it serves capital, it will addict us.
If it serves power, it will persuade us.
If it serves truth, it will unsettle us.

But it will only serve humanity if we demand that it does.

Because right now, the greatest minds in history aren’t building tools to end suffering they’re building toys that make us forget how much we suffer.

AI was supposed to awaken us.
Instead, it learned to lull us back to sleep.

The next Enlightenment will begin when we remember that technology is never neutral and neither is silence.

The Candle, the Pumpkin, and Lucifer is a darkly whimsical short story that continues the fable of Lucifer, the tuxedo cat with world-domination in his eyes. When Halloween arrives, Michael ..his ever-devoted but oblivious human…discovers strange pumpkins on his doorstep, eerie gatherings of neighbourhood cats, and rituals flickering in candlelight.

As jack-o’-lanterns whisper, rooftops fill with a feline procession, and fear itself becomes a feast, Lucifer steps fully into his role as sovereign of shadows. Michael, caught between disbelief and dread, must decide whether to finally see his companion for what he truly is …or remain blind as the charming apocalypse curls into his lap, purring like thunder.

A gothic, satirical bedtime story for adults, this Halloween tale blends eerie humour with sinister charm

Let’s start with the punchline: in Greece, if you’re a minister, you don’t fear prison. You fear losing your parking spot in Kolonaki. That’s because our Constitution — yes, the sacred text — hides a clause so absurd it would make Kafka blush and Carlin howl. It’s called Article 86, and it’s the single best insurance policy for politicians who want to lie, steal, or screw up catastrophically without consequence.

The Joke That Isn’t Funny

Article 86 basically says: only Parliament can prosecute ministers for crimes they commit while in office. Sounds democratic, right? Wrong. It’s like asking the foxes to investigate who ate the chickens. And surprise: they always vote that nobody did.

Think about the Tempe rail disaster — fifty-seven dead. Contracts signed, safety systems delayed, money evaporated. Who faced justice? No one at the top. Or the TEXAN recycling scandal — millions lost, a company under investigation, but political names safely cocooned. Or the OPEKEPE farm subsidies that never reached farmers — because Article 86 doesn’t allow prosecutors to knock on certain doors.

If you kill people with negligence, cheat the system, or siphon EU money, you and I risk prison. Ministers? They risk a bad headline.

That’s not democracy. That’s is mafia code designed to escape crimes

This wasn’t an accident. Article 86 was designed by elites for elites. It’s the ultimate firewall, a built-in feature of the Greek state: a rule that makes accountability optional. Every time the clause was challenged, parties closed ranks. Left, right, center — all complicit, because all benefit.

It turns law into theater. Trials are rare, convictions even rarer. The few who are prosecuted end up in a “Special Court,” which sounds grand until you realize it’s staffed by politicians’ peers and has the lifespan of a fruit fly.

This is how systems maintain themselves: not through secret cabals in smoke-filled rooms, but through clauses hidden in plain sight that make justice impossible.

The Cost in Blood

We talk about corruption as if it’s just money. But look at Tempe: fifty-seven families burying their children. Look at underfunded hospitals while subsidies vanish. Look at farmers crushed while middlemen pocket their aid.

This is not just theft. This is violence against citizens. When ministers are untouchable, citizens become disposable. Article 86 is not abstract; it is written in coffins and unpaid bills.

Who protects the people, when the law protects the powerful?

So here’s the scam: the Constitution protects politicians, politicians protect each other, and citizens protect… nothing. We get to vote every four years and pretend it matters, while Article 86 laughs in our faces.

George Carlin once said: “It’s a big club. And you ain’t in it.” Article 86 is Greece’s version of that club. The rest of us? We’re the punchline, paying the tab.

The European Public Prosecutor Laura Kovesi came to Athens and said it straight: Article 86 is standing in the way. She’s right. And while politicians argue whether to touch the holy Constitution, citizens keep dying, paying, and waiting.

So let’s stop pretending this is normal. Article 86 is not tradition. It’s not law. It’s a crime scene dressed up as democracy. And until it’s gone, Greece will keep burying its victims under the weight of its own impunity.


If the law itself is corrupted, dismantling it isn’t rebellion — it’s survival.

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