We are standing on the edge of a shift: by 2026, Europol predicts that 90% of online content may be synthetically generated. The human internet is being swallowed by the synthetic one. At the same time, regulators are catching up. The EU AI Act now requires explicit disclosure of “deep fake” content, and parallel laws are emerging worldwide. Creative industries are being flooded with AI-assisted work, while writers watch their own archives scraped for training without consent. And beneath it ...