You were never the user. You were the training data. The internet was a trap and AI is the harvest.

This isn’t theory. This is how AI models like ChatGPT were actually trained.
On everything we’ve ever posted, our tweets, emails, forum rants, grief blogs, Reddit comments.

Without consent. Without attribution.
And now the machine sounds exactly like us… but better.

This long-form breakdown shows how we got here and what it means when the system doesn’t just automate us… it mimics us.