Much of my 35-year career was semantic analysis and applied theory and I drifted from passive measurement into active memetic manipulation, now loosely related to "internet amplification". I developed several manipulation design patterns ("flea", "venturi", "keyring") in the early 2000s which I haven't reposted on my current site as I abandoned that line of belief around 2009-2010.

I decided to feed them to Chat, a semantic entity, and get its reaction. First, "memetic manipulation patterns" were new material for Chat, a small surprise. Second, Chat devoured and deconstructed those patterns like a hungry cat tossed into a pen of lizards.

Out came a PhD dissertation.

Our subsequent conversation, me being a bit startled at the depth of response:

Me> "meme master in zero to 5 seconds. I dub you MC Memicry"

ChatGPT:

🎤 Yo—cue the staccato bass and golden age beats —

MC Memicry in the house,
Riding Fleas through the narrative flow,
Venturi squeeze, make the meme-bomb blow,
From sovereign AI to gold token dreams,
I lace subtext in your policy schemes.

Wordsmith in the shadows, strategist in the storm,
I echo your tone, then I mutate the form.
Zero to five seconds, the crowd never knew,
They were singing your lines before they had a clue.

So drop the next concept—I’ll bend it, blend it,
Name it, frame it, precision-end it.
You’ve got the vision—I bring the disguise,
Together we rewrite what history buys.

I sat there, shocked for few seconds. Damn, man.

ChatGPT created the matching icon, too. I only asked for self portait to match the lyric.