The Invasion of Human Expression by Generative AI

The Invasion of Human Expression by Generative AI examines how generative systems are transforming language, cognition, and culture into a self-sustaining symbolic ecology. The essay introduces the concept of information drift, describing how meaning circulates through recursive loops of data, model, content, and cognition. As generative models reproduce human expression at scale, authorship dissolves into automation, language flattens toward statistical averages, and culture converges toward self-referential coherence. The work situates this process within the philosophical lineage of simulation, authorship, and semiotic collapse, arguing that we are entering an irreversible ecology where expression persists without origin — a world that writes itself.