Lockheed Martin: Let's Be Honest About What They're Selling

So, OmniCorp thinks it can solve the internet.

Their grand idea? A new feature they’re calling the “Authenticity Score.” The pitch is simple, shiny, and just dripping with that unique Silicon Valley blend of arrogance and naivete. An AI will now scan your articles, your videos, your posts, and assign them a numerical score based on how “authentic” they are.

Give me a break.

I can just picture the meeting where this was born. A glass-walled conference room, smelling of artisanal coffee and desperation, filled with product managers who think human expression can be quantified on a spreadsheet. They probably used words like “synergy” and “paradigm shift” while patting themselves on the back for building a digital god that can pass judgment on our messy, beautiful, human chaos. They’re promising to “restore trust” and “reward genuine creators.”

What they’re really building is a censorship machine with a friendly user interface.

The Algorithmic Truth-O-Meter

Let’s be brutally honest about what this is. An “Authenticity Score” is just a black box designed to enforce conformity. Who, exactly, is training this AI? What data set is it using to define something as utterly subjective as “authenticity”? Is a raw, angry political rant less “authentic” than a polished corporate press release? Is a poem less “authentic” than a peer-reviewed scientific paper?

This isn't a tool for finding truth. It’s a tool for manufacturing consent. It’s like a high school popularity contest where the judges are a million lines of code trained by a committee of people who all wear the same brand of fleece vest. The system will inevitably favor safe, sanitized, advertiser-friendly content. It will reward the bland and punish the bold.

It’s the digital equivalent of telling a painter they can only use three pre-approved colors. Sure, you can still make something, but you’ve stripped all the soul out of it. And what happens when the algorithm decides it doesn’t like your tone, your politics, or your inconvenient questions? Does your score just plummet into the digital abyss?

Your New Digital Overlord

This is a bad idea. No, ‘bad’ doesn’t cover it—this is a five-alarm dumpster fire of an idea. We’ve already seen how creators have to contort themselves to please the YouTube and Instagram algorithms, turning their passions into a soul-crushing game of SEO and engagement-hacking. Now we’re adding a new layer of algorithmic judgment. Get ready for the rise of “ASO,” or Authenticity Score Optimization.

Imagine a world where every aspiring writer, journalist, and artist has to first ask themselves: “Will the OmniCorp AI think this is authentic enough?” It’s a recipe for the most boring, predictable, and sterile content imaginable. It’s the death of nuance. They want a clean, predictable internet, and if that means sanding off all the rough edges that make it human, then…

This whole thing reminds me of my cable company's customer service bot. It’s sold as a “convenient” and “intelligent” way to solve my problems, but it’s really just a barrier designed to prevent me from ever speaking to a real person who might have to acknowledge a real problem. Same energy. Different billion-dollar company.

Then again, maybe I'm the crazy one here. Maybe the masses are clamoring for a sanitized internet where every piece of content comes with a little green checkmark of approval. It just ain't for me.

So, What Happens Now?

The scariest part is how easily this will be accepted. OmniCorp will roll it out with a slick marketing campaign full of smiling, diverse creators talking about how the Authenticity Score helped them “find their voice.” The media will write breathless articles about the dawn of a new, more trustworthy internet. And slowly, insidiously, a tool of control will be normalized as a feature for convenience.

We’ll see a quiet bifurcation of the web. The “authentic” internet, approved and scored by OmniCorp, where corporations and bland influencers thrive. And the rest of us, the weirdos and dissenters and genuine artists, relegated to the digital ghettos with a failing score. It’s just another way to controll the narrative, to make sure the loudest voices are the ones that have been pre-approved by the system.

Do you really think a scathing exposé on OmniCorp’s labor practices is going to get a 98 on the authenticity scale? Offcourse not. But you can bet a video of a puppy learning to skateboard, sponsored by a multinational soda company, will.

Welcome to the Content Factory

This isn't about truth. It’s about compliance. It’s about taking the wild, untamed, glorious mess of the internet and turning it into a sterile, predictable, and profitable shopping mall. It’s the final victory of the spreadsheet over the soul. They’re not building a tool to measure authenticity; they’re building a machine to destroy it. And they expect us to thank them for it.