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The Friend AI Pendant is not a product

It’s part of an art project, and the “canvas” is capitalism.
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If AI companies avoid AI slop, shouldn't we?
AI companies expect us to consume AI-generated content, even though they themselves vastly prefer human-generated content for training AI models.
Jul 23
How AI makes people confidently wrong
The accuracy of people using AI drops by one-third, but their certainty that they’re right more than doubles.
Jul 20
Amazon invents the Attachment Economy bait-and-switch
Amazon’s first great innovation was the ability to subtly lure people into dependence for eCommerce. Now they’re doing it again with attachment.
Jul 18
Why "maxxing" is made for social media and terrible for real life
Let's try to minimize our "maxxing," mkay?
Jul 17 • Mike Elgan
OpenAI’s first hardware device will be a portable desktop robot
OpenAI’s first-ever hardware device will be a battery powered, “humanlike” AI smart speaker designed to compete in the new Attachment Economy.
Jul 14
Rise of the 'slop zombies'
Corporate America and the wider world of work are suffering from a pandemic of AI-pilled slop zombies infected with brain rot and unearned confidence.
Jul 10
Driving in Europe feels like a dystopian sci-fi novel
When you get behind the wheel in the EU, Big Brother is Always Watching You.
Jul 9
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