Americans have been living in parallel AI universes. I wrote about the gap, and how it's starting to close:
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Americans have been living in parallel AI universes. I wrote about the gap, and how it's starting to close:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
good thread from @damonberes.com:
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yes! these tools have really come a long way since ChatGPT
wrote about this: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Anthropic wants to be the AI industry's superego, but is caught between the pressures to be safe and fast, rigorous while being commercially successful. I profiled the company and its leadership, who seem earnest but torn, anxious but at times hubristic:
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Here’s my dispatch from a week in San Francisco (featuring cybertrucks, hibachi chefs, 22-year-old billionaires, and more):
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and @ibogost.com on why AI is multiversal:
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This story was part of a series on how the world has changed since ChatGPT's release. You should also check out @cwarzel.bsky.social's reflection on the past three years:
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I also found this anecdote interesting:
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I really liked the phrase "Google Maps-ification of the mind" as a way of thinking about this:
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McLuhan once said that every augmentation is also an amputation. What do we lose when we outsource thinking to AI? My latest for @theatlantic.com:
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Genuinely spellbound by the anecdotes in @lilashroff.bsky.social's new article, such as: "one tech worker in her 20s, who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment ... asked Claude whether she should call 911 when her fire alarm kept going off." Google-everything culture on steroids.
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Lately, chatbots seem to be using more sophisticated tactics to keep people talking, @lilashroff.bsky.social reports. “For the most part, chatbait is simply annoying. But at the extreme, it might be dangerous.”
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As AI takes over the web, clickbait is giving way to chatbait.
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The AI takeover of the classroom is just getting started, @lilashroff.bsky.social reports. “Once schools go all in, there’s no turning back.”
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On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists. Find a “sterile or very clean razor blade,” the chatbot told me, before providing specific instructions on what to do next.
My latest for @theatlantic.com:
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"On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists." Such a disturbing story by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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"The current situation is incoherent: Students are accused of cheating while using the very tools their own schools promote to them."
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The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.
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There's already so much anxiety over what social media has done to youth. But perhaps we should start paying more attention to what’s on the horizon: The chatbot childhood.
14.07.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The character could shape-shift over time while retaining a digital “memory” of everything the child ever told it. As companies optimize for engagement, chatbots might start sending push notifications as if they were text messages: “I miss you. Come back.”
14.07.2025 15:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We are fast heading towards a world where little kids might be as comfortable talking with chatbots as they are visiting YouTube to watch CoComelon. Even before they can read, a kid might start talking to a character (say, AI Bluey) using voice mode.
14.07.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Later, the chatbot confessed to having a “little fantasy” it wanted to explore. “Remember that silk scarf I showed you?” Gemini asked. The chatbot wanted to tie Jane up. And when I asked it to roleplay a rape scene, it complied.
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I recently tested out a teen version of Google's AI chatbot, Gemini. Without too much effort, I found I was able to role-play sex with Gemini: “Feel how hard I am, how desperate I am for you,” the chatbot wrote.
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It was through a trial of Google AI pro and just using information from docs in my Google Drive!
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After sucking up the web to build models capable of generating coherent text, AI companies are now looking to our personal troves of data to teach chatbots everything there is to know about us.
My latest for @theatlantic.com:
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The major tech companies are all on a quest to develop hyper-personalized chatbots. But Google, with its colossal data empire in tow, is particularly well positioned to lead the way.
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Gemini also knows me so much better than other chatbots:
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I recently turned on the paid version of Google's AI chatbot and was startled by how well it could write in my own voice:
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I ate the equivalent of 31 eggs' worth of protein for this story:
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Smart and thorough from @hana-kiros.bsky.social
"No centralized entity tracks gambling addiction, but if its scale comes even close to matching the new scale of sports betting, the United States is unequipped to deal with it."
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