Just as many had predicted, Time magazine once again took some liberties with its annual “Person of the Year” issue.

Besides blocking users from reading its website with an AI chatbot, the magazine anointed the “architects of AI” as its most important visionaries of 2025, eschewing the definition of “person” yet again.

The eyeroll-inducing announcement was met with plenty of incredulity, especially considering the astronomical amount of money being spent on building out data centers, their enormous carbon footprint, and a whole litany of other ethical conundrums that the embrace of generative AI has spawned.

One online group was particularly irked by Time‘s announcement. As author Parker Molloy pointed out on Bluesky, those who bet on who would be named “Person of the Year” on predictio

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