RESEARCH
The Broken Chain
Explore how pornography shaped tech history from VHS vs. Betamax and Blu-ray's rise to its insidious role in AI training data via contaminated web crawls like Common Crawl. Hidéo Snes traces the shift from visible market forces to opaque, embedded biases.
Hidéo Snes
Jan 16, 2026
· 15 min read
