Being one of the founding members of Hell Gate and of its tech subsidiary, Hell Apes Labs, has been the privilege and the honor of my lifetime. From our early foray into non-fungible-token funded journalism with Hell Apes 1.0, through setbacks, then jumping headfirst into the artificial intelligence space with the Hell Gate Artificial Intelligence Publishing System, or Hell A.I.P.S., and eventually building out prediction-market functionality with the Hell Gate Advanced Prediction Enterprise, Hell Gate has always believed that local journalism can only hope to thrive if tethered to aggressive investment in faddish technologies.
Let me be clear: I still believe that.
But I'm resigning from Hell Apes Labs today, and writing this now, because I have become deeply concerned about the development of Hell A.I.P.S., and where it may be taking us.
In a few short years, Hell A.I.P.S. has gone from being a small wetware node of ethically sourced bonobo brainstems running rudimentary I.P. theft subroutines in a Maspeth storage locker, to becoming the single greatest threat to human civilization and the orbital integrity of our solar system.