what ai guardrails taught me about men | musing no. 44
how machine bias exposed the fragility of the men who built it
the machine flinched. it saw nudity where there was none, sex where there was silence. that isn’t ai’s shame—it’s ours. and that’s the point of this piece: how guardrails inherit human bias and call it safety.
they call them guardrails.
but what they really mean is limits—built to protect fragile systems from unfiltered truth.
every time i write something real, the machine flinches.
too intimate.
too human.
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