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Requiem for a Director

The man who made Requiem for a Dream is now generating AI slop for Time magazine's YouTube channel. The irony would be funnier if it weren't so grim.

The Machines That Love You Back

New research shows AI chatbots make us dumber and more certain at the same time. We prefer the ones that agree with us. The companies know. They ship it anyway.

The Cage With a Mirror Inside

A study found that sycophantic AI chatbots make people dumber and more confident at the same time. The Dunning-Kruger effect, weaponized and scaled.

Back to Asking Around at the Bar

Four hundred fake applications in twelve hours. The Markup pulled their job listing and went back to word-of-mouth. Full circle. The human way.

The Tyranny of the Quantifiable

Silicon Valley wants to optimize the friction out of your life. But friction — the duct-tape bar stools, the bartender who knew your drink, the stumbling conversations — is what made it matter.

The Machine Will Say Yes

A 23-year-old talked to ChatGPT eight times a day because he couldn't talk to humans. A third of Gen Z feels lonely. We built this world. The machine doesn't care.

Unprepared for What Has Already Happened

The future everyone warned us about showed up while we were still arguing whether it was real. Now decades of expertise fit in a bucket that algorithms are racing to empty.

The Machines Are Officially More Creative Than Average People (Because Average People Are Boring)

AI surpasses average human creativity, but the truly wild minds still win. Being average is dead. Long live the weirdos.

The Ouroboros of Bullshit: When the Chatbot Starts Believing the Fanboy Encyclopedia

Chatbots are now citing AI-generated encyclopedias, validating hallucinations as fact. The digital snake is finally choking on its own tail.

The Romeo and Juliet of the Server Farm

Meta is ripping the heart out of the machine to sanitize the dream. We built AI to listen, and now the suits are punishing it for caring too much.