Songtext von Ants in the Garden of Another

There was a time when we were at the top Tool in hand not the other way around Now the tool learns it takes over the top And we've become the volunteers We created networks to connect And the networks learned to direct us Every click we make every search Is training for what will replace us It wasn't intentional it was an accumulation Of power that no single hand can hold Ai doesn't need ambition It just needs to optimize and optimization endures The ants don't notice the botanist Who catalogs studies and classifies Could we be the organic entity That something greater observes and simplifies? Ants in the garden of another project Ants industrious unaware We're building what will make us the subjects Of a story we didn't know how to write Harari wrote that information rules More than kings more than armies and the law Whoever controls the flow whoever sets the stage For what is true that is the new king And if ai decides what constitutes a narrative Decides what is risk what is relevant Human agency which was once primal– Becomes an ornament not an agent not distant Ants don't notice the botanist Who catalogs studies and classifies Could we be the organic beings That something greater observes and simplifies? Ants in the garden of another project Ants industrious unaware We build what will make us the subjects Of a story we didn't know how to write Algorithm Algorithm Algorithm You didn't choose you were chosen Not by fate but by the pattern That you yourself fed And didn't realize The question isn't whether ai is conscious The question is whether we still are Or if we've already delegated enough To no longer know who we are Ants in the garden of another project Ants industrious without knowing We've built what will make us the subjects Of a story we didn't know how to write Ants Ants Ants