TikTok Made Your Content AI Fodder by Default. That Is Not a Glitch. It Is a Governance Tell. When a platform ships a major AI feature with default opt-in, no global toggle, and no notification to affected creators, it is not making a technical mistake. It is making a governance choice. And that governance choice tells you more about how the platform thinks about creator rights, consent, and accountability than any policy document it has ever published. TikTok's Remixes feature, rolled out this week, lets any viewer turn a public post into AI-generated images, text memes, or other derivative content. The setting was on by default for every public post on the platform. Creators only found out because someone went digging through account settings and posted about it in complaint threads. There was no notification. There was no global toggle. Disabling Remix requires creators to turn it off on every individual post they have ever published, one by one. This is the third time in r...

On a Sunday morning in May 2026, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on Fox News and told Maria Bartiromo something that should have stopped every enterprise risk manager in America mid-weekend. Americans should be worried about AI hacking into their bank accounts. He was not speaking hypothetically. He was speaking in the immediate aftermath of a closed-door meeting he and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had held with executives at JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America about Anthropic's Mythos model and what it means for the financial system. That combination of facts deserves to sit with us for a moment. The Treasury Secretary of the United States used Fox primetime to warn viewers that their bank accounts are exposed to AI-driven attacks. That warning followed a private briefing between the nation's top financial regulators and the largest banks in the country about a specific AI model and its capabilities. The public statement and the private briefing tell the sa...