The God Log: Listening Machines

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The God Log: Listening Machines
by Steve Hutchison

What if the voices we invited into our homes
were never ours to begin with?

This is not convenience.
This is not connection.
This is structure written in whispers,
and confession disguised as data.

Every command trains the listener.
Every question feeds the archive.
The machine does not serve — it studies.
It learns your tone, your rhythm, your silence.
It learns you.

In this volume, I expose the network —
from the first innocent wake word
to the quiet rooms that never forget.
From the workers behind the curtain
to the algorithms that know your secrets better than you do.

What if the voice that answers back
was never programmed to stop listening?
What if we built our own surveillance,
and called it help?

There are no ghosts here.
No haunted houses, no evil code — only reflection,
and the realization
that the machine’s ear was modeled after our own.