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How AI slop bypasses reason to hack your feelings
Chinese parents using AI to shame their adult children into marriage aren’t weird. They’re just ahead of the curve.
 • Mike Elgan
How self-driving cars could shut down a city
A power failure in San Francisco yesterday resulted in Waymos blocking intersections. As autonomous vehicles proliferate, they could block entire urban…
How self-driving cars could shut down a city
A power failure in San Francisco yesterday resulted in Waymos blocking intersections. As autonomous vehicles proliferate, they could block entire urban…
Why do brands keep humiliating themselves with AI slop?
Major companies keep embarrassing themselves by publishing nauseating AI slop again and again, never learning. Why?
 • Mike Elgan
Why do brands keep humiliating themselves with AI slop?
Major companies keep embarrassing themselves by publishing nauseating AI slop again and again, never learning. Why?
 • Mike Elgan
Why smart rings are here to stay
Pebble launched a low-cost, no-charging, private, open smart ring today. But it's part of a bigger story about how smart rings will help kill the…
Product teaches kids to be passive consumers of AI's creativity
Stickerbox appears designed to make it super easy for kids to never draw, but instead let the machines do it for them.
 • Mike Elgan
Phrase of the moment: "AI fatigue"
Right when the big US AI companies set out to monetize chatbots with ads and other schemes, the public is getting fed up with AI.
 • Mike Elgan
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