The End of Masking (Series Finale)

Disclaimer: This essay functions as the final arc in a three-part counter-argument series. These pieces are released according to my local time zone to provide a full structural analysis of modern celebrity and tech culture my personal bias center it.

When the tech falls on its delusional ivory tower, you suddenly believe it is greater than it actually is. Your nose shoots like Pinocchio's because all the lies and marketing tools grow like a damn tree. Social media has become more unbearable, and it is all thanks to corp greed—it isn't a safe internet space to the point where you can actually find community.

The End of Masking: Calling Out the Insufferable

Writing on Substack usually involves a lot of masking for me, providing for my small business content creation, but today, I’m done. This takes guts to say, but the recent news has made it impossible to stay quiet. It’s bad enough that TikTok thinks we neurodivergent people are a damn joke; I’ll be damned if Sam Altman gets the last laugh on his mediocrity.

The Receipt of Hypocrisy

Altman recently posted:

"5.5 is an autistic genius with very strange taste in naming... autistic genius intelligence."

As a neurodivergent individual, this got me heated. He has the damn nerve to call his stupid AI models "autistic," even though it isn't real. It is a stupid robot. Autism, ADHD, and Neurodivergence apply only to humans. This isn't "genius"—it’s code.

Readers will definitely be like: "What about the others?"

Me: "Believe me, they are polarizing, but the CEO's latest tweet is what really set the storm off."

Before I knew it, I started writing in my Notes app. Hell breaks loose.

Labor, Rights, and Mediocrity

Beyond the biological lie, your machine is mediocre and does not deserve the human labor that we, as humans, work for as part of our rights. You are taking human effort—the writing, the photography, and the anime we love—and using it to fuel a "genius" that doesn't exist. This is exactly why nobody takes neurodivergent people seriously; you are turning a human reality into a tech-bro metaphor, and it is pathetic as hell.

The Only Damn Difference

The difference between a tech CEO and a private citizen like me is simple. I live the reality of being neurodivergent every day; he uses it as a buzzword to sell a product. I don't just disagree; I have him blocked. I don't need his feed.

The Hard Line

As I’ve mentioned with other figures, I’ve used light boycotts to send a message. But for OpenAI and Altman, the stance is simpler: Avoidance. I am skipping the hype. I won't let these models touch my writing or my creative space. I’m starting this today and will review my stance between May and October.

This concludes this introspective series. I’m taking a break to recover from writer's block and focus on my upcoming creative projects and my manuscript. I’m checking out of the discourse until I return with my actual creative work. You can’t use human identity or human labor as a marketing gimmick for mechanical mediocrity.

Here is a challenge for Sam Altman to shut the hell up. (It’s hard.) I am waiting.

C.G

Writer's Highlight & Vibe Check

Current Mood: "I literally release anger made it my art. I am so happy as hell." 🩵

Song Recommendation:"Break My Soul" — Beyoncé (Renaissance Act I)