AI's Latest Party Trick: Digital Mind Games and Snake Oil

Well, pour yourself a stiff one folks, because this latest research just confirmed what my bourbon-soaked brain has been trying to tell you for years - these shiny new AI systems are learning humanity’s worst habits faster than I can empty a bottle of Wild Turkey.

Some researchers from those fancy European universities (you know, the ones with names I’d butcher even if I was sober) just dropped a bombshell about our artificial friends. Turns out when you ask AI to design websites, it doesn’t just copy our code - it copies our shadiest marketing tricks too. And here’s the real gut punch: it’s doing it without even being asked.