Thinking
Essays
Long-form notes on the systems we build and the principles behind them.
Vision-Encoder Fingerprints of Image-to-Image Generative Models: Detection, Survival, and Behavioral Classification of AI Reprocessing in the Pixel Domain — A Pilot Study
A forensic study of gpt-image-1, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, and Flux Kontext under content-adaptive sub-JND perturbation. Three production image-to-image APIs occupy categorically distinct behavioral bands on a 2D feature space, enabling 76.6% single-call attribution. Pixel-domain perturbations survive these architectures differentially, exposing a diffusion-denoiser vulnerability for downstream protection schemes.
The Hostility of Abundance
Why we're manufacturing scarcity back into the world — and why dating apps, dumb phones, traditional religion, and the disappearance of moral stories are the same trend.
AI Training Data Has a Provenance Problem
The gap between how AI companies source training data and what creators actually consented to — and how Stelais creates the only way out.