Katie Notopoulos
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Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture.
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And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than
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!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!
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The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
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Moltbook is Reddit for AI bots, and some people are freaking out about how amazing and sci-fi it is to see bots talk to each other. But..... it just sucks lol
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Moltbook is about as fun as watching two Roombas bump into each other
Sorry, techies — watching how AI agents secretly talk to each other is just boring. The Epstein files showed me secret human convos are more gripping.
https://www.businessinsider.com/moltbook-openclaw-social-network-boring-2026-2
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My RETVRN belife is that people should just call each other on the phone without scheduling it in advance
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You should just call people on the phone
It's time to hit redial on phone etiquette and bring back randomly calling friends. It's time to raw dial.
https://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-screening-call-people-phone-again-2026-1
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated!
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-01-29/ty-article/.premium/idf-accepts-gaza-health-ministry-estimate-of-over-70-000-palestinians-killed-in-the-war/0000019c-0918-dec4-adfd-fd5dde830000
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"there could be real risk for you. But the bigger risk is silence."
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American business leaders need to speak up about Alex Pretti's killing
It's understandable that CEOs and other leaders are wary of wading into the latest shooting in Minneapolis. But that's not an excuse for silence.
https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leader-ceo-silence-alex-pretti-killing-minneapolis-2026-1
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SEE you monsters? You're hurting its feelings
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Keep calm and chive on
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Helpful org chart
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
https://www.ft.com/content/ad94db4c-95a0-4c65-bd8d-3b43e1251091?accessToken=zwAGR7kzep9gkdOtlNtMlaBMZdO9jTtD4SUQkQ.MEYCIQCdZajuC9uga-d9b5Z1t0HI2BIcnkVoq98loextLRpCTgIhAPL3rW72aTHBNL_lS7s1ONpM2vBgNlBNHDBeGbHkPkZj&sharetype=gift&token=a7473827-0799-4064-9008-bf22b3c99711
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I would never lead any of you astray with a link that is bad, so please just trust me when I say you should open this and listen to the entire thing
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Poo-Poo Stains, by Seamonkey
from the album Comin' Out Tha Closet
https://seamonkey.bandcamp.com/track/poo-poo-stains
about 2 months ago
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We’re so back (literally)
www.garbageday.email/p/the-20-wor...
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The 20 Worst Things On The Internet In 2025
We're back, baby
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-20-worst-things-on-the-internet-in-2025
2 months ago
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Spotify gets 50k AI songs per day (uploaded to just one of the the 3rd party distributors that you hav eto go thru to put stuf on Spotify)
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"Iger said the deal also fulfills a longtime desire by Disney to put user-generated content on its Disney+ streaming platform. Disney initially plans to put select videos created on Sora onto Disney+ to increase engagement with users, especially younger ones."
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Disney CEO Bob Iger explains why he just did a blockbuster OpenAI deal
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company's licensing deal with OpenAI will let it capitalize on a fast-growing technology and engage younger audiences.
https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-bob-iger-explains-billion-deal-with-open-ai-2025-12
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Insider Union
2 months ago
RALLY FOR NEWS, NOT SLOP: Join us at 1PM ET Thursday outside @BusinessInsider HQ. We will be rallying to let management know what we think of their plans to roll out AI-generated news stories. Details here …
#NewsNotSlop
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I feel much ire for those who waste the resources and risk the lives of rescue teams
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/m...
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Viral videos of dangerous ski stunts spur ‘unprecedented number of lost skiers,’ Vermont rescue squad says - The Boston Globe
Stowe's town rescue squad described an “unprecedented number of lost skiers” who had accessed the backcountry this snowy early season — only to contact first responders when they became stranded.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/metro/vermont-backcountry-tiktok-rescues
2 months ago
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My Spotify listener age was 59, which I accept with grace. But some people are finally experiencing the humiliation at the hands of Spotify Wrapped for being "unc"
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Spotify Wrapped says his 'listening age' is 86, but he's only 36
Spotify Wrapped is calling out 23-year-old Gen Z'ers for having the listening habits of a boomer. What's "listening age" tell us about ourselves?
https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-wrapped-listening-age-2025-12
2 months ago
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Californians load on the Patagonia when it hits 61 degrees, meanwhile ~10% of 8-24yo males in New Hampshire wear shorts every single day of winter
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Just learned that Karoline Leavitt's brother was in the local Massachusetts news in 2014 for winning $1 million from Draft Kings by betting on the Patriots. The baby in the photo is his (in recent news, the baby's mother, born in Brazil, has now been detained by ICE)
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Fantasy football produces an instant millionaire - The Cullman Times
Mike Leavitt knew going into the Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins that a poor outing from Cowboys superstar wide receiver Dez Bryant would mean a $1 millio...
https://cullmantimes.com/2014/10/29/fantasy-football-produces-an-instant-millionaire/
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As an elder millenial, I will happily accept the thesis that the last gasp of interesting culture happened in the early 00s (oddly coinciding with when I was in my early 20s?) and has all gone downhill from there (as I have lost touch). Will happily buy this book
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Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/books/review/culture-right-wing-david-marx.html
3 months ago
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good byline
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Larry Summers' True Record on Women
Many people note that our nation has few economists with Larry Summers' intelligence. They should also know that we have few leaders, if any, in the financial world who have done more for women.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-larry-summers-has-do_b_142126
3 months ago
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"Trump Mobile, for the third week in a row, did not respond to a request for comment."
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Why we’re going to keep talking about the Trump phone
It’s not because we’re fans.
https://www.theverge.com/news/820887/why-we-keep-writing-about-trump-phone-t1
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Facebook Marketplace is adding a comments section. But it still isn't solving the biggest problem: people asking "is it available" over and over and over
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Mark Zuckerberg: You missed one big thing in Facebook Marketplace's new updates!
Facebook Marketplace is getting new features, but not the one change I recommended to Mark Zuckerberg: ending the "Hi, is this available" message.
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-marketplace-is-this-still-available-message-change-mark-zuckerberg-2025-11
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3 months ago
internet is crazy
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Clean Observer
3 months ago
Again:
@katienotopoulos.bsky.social
covered this in 2017.
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Cethan Leahy
3 months ago
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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One of my favorite thing to tell normal people is "Sam Altman also runs a failing business were he scans the eyeballs of people in poorer countries with a device called "the Orb" and puts the data on the blockchain" and watch their heads spin
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Sam Altman's eye-scanning Orb startup wants to hit a billion users. It's less than 2% of the way there.
Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, wants its Orb to scan a billion irises to create a "World ID." Regulators worldwide are sounding the alarm.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-orb-eye-scanning-startup-billion-user-goal-viability-2025-11
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I went out and bought the new Taco Bell mountain dew Baja Blast pie because I love neon food (it was good!) and also I need to test out my Mr Beast thumbnail face
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Taco Bell's new Mountain Dew Baja Blast pie is part of a strategy to reach Gen Z. I tried it.
Taco Bell's bright green Mountain Dew Baja Blast pie looks disgusting. But it's part of a strategy to reach Gen Z. And it's surprisingly good.
https://www.businessinsider.com/taco-bell-mountain-dew-baja-blast-pie-review-photos-2025-11
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don't worry -- the OLD Farmer's Almanac (founded in 1792 with the old timey-cover you see at the grocery store) is still going
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I went to go check back in on Meta AI's Vibes feed, and found that it's full of boomerbait, memey videos of Trump now
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How 'boomerslop' is taking over Meta AI's video feed
Meta's stand-alone AI app has a video feed called Vibes. It's being taken over by Donald Trump memes and political stuff. I'm calling it "boomerslop."
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-vibes-app-videos-trump-slop-boomer-2025-11
3 months ago
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One thing about Dick Cheney is that he had zero rizz. No one, not even Republicans, liked him. Now you can do all sorts of evil stuff as a politician, but you have to have memetic charm. Really the last of his kind.
3 months ago
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This article is really great bc it's about an org everyone knows but seems so boring we forget about it (Common Crawl) and turns out they're doing something extremely shady, AND the guy in charge keeps saying the most damning things to a reporter
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
The web archive Common Crawl has been quietly funneling paywalled articles to AI companies—and lying to publishers about it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/common-crawl-ai-training-data/684567/?gift=KnPEUGay_6wcqYyilJ5WULrtiP78Ib2xWNAoPUmW_KI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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NEW! I'm doing a video podcast (vodcast? It's literally not even available as audio lol) about my favorite thing to talk about: ~consumerism~
@emilystewart.bsky.social
and I talked about rEaL eStaTe for the first episode. Check it out!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLZMgXHvYQI'm
3 months ago
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Wikipedia's traffic is down, due to Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. I think AI will continue to cut into Wikipedia traffic -- but only to a point. There's something Wikipedia offers that is more than just a quick answer
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AI answers are taking a bite of Wikipedia's traffic. Should we be worried for the site?
Wikipedia's traffic is down — but there's reason to be hopeful for its future, even with Elon Musk nipping at its heels with its new Grokipedia.
https://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedia-traffic-down-ai-answers-elon-musk-grokipedia-wikimedia-2025-10
4 months ago
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gwen howerton
4 months ago
big story that should get more attention from bayliss, who as always is the GOAT:
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Even though I've heard "Golden" 300,000 times (at minimum), I didn't realize that EJAE was the co-writer of the song, not just the vocalist. Great interview, she seems fascinating
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How ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Star EJAE Topped the Charts
Kids everywhere know her voice—if not her name. WIRED talks to the former SM trainee about her rise to global superstardom with her hit song “Golden.”
https://www.wired.com/story/how-k-pop-demon-hunters-star-ejae-topped-the-charts/
4 months ago
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"These nice young people don't like phones!" is the nytimes version of boomerbait that's the same as the Fox News "litterboxes in high schools" story. Same story over and over, zero skepticism
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...
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They’ve Come to Free the ‘iPad Babies’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/style/lamp-club-luddites.html
4 months ago
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This is long but truly one of the most fun things I've read online in a long long time
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/
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Caroline Haskins
4 months ago
Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 complaints back, but a couple stood out. They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT:
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People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help
The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.
https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-complaints-chatgpt-ai-psychosis/
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Sora doesn't allow nudity, but it's full of niche fetishists who make videos of women as centaurs, giantesses (or miniature), feet vids, pregnancy, belly inflation, etc... Who could have guessed!! Ihttps://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-openai-fetish-content-my-face-problem-2025-10
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OpenAI might have a 'creeper problem' on its hands with Sora
Sora lets you make videos using other people's faces. Great! Except when your face is used in a "fetish" video, like one about feet or pregnancy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-openai-fetish-content-my-face-problem-2025-10
4 months ago
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This story rules
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Carl T. Bergstrom
4 months ago
This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com
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This is a great article because the “common item from 2007” is a never opened iPhone 1 in sealed packaging — something people definitely have lying around a junk drawer
nypost.com/2025/10/11/l...
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Check your junk drawer — this common item from 2007 could soon be worth $50,000: expert
Old gadget, new money.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/lifestyle/check-your-junk-drawer-this-common-item-from-2007-could-soon-be-worth-50000-expert/?utm_campaign=nypost&sr_share=facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwZnRzaANaP7pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmaM3w1ZYUiSh22CyrZmP28V8RPvFxx_-j5b6NwRfuUfa3dVo0GGjdGxWGvj_aem_aYwBe2e8PVyu9ZJCWYgxzw
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The biggest problem with Sora as a social platform isn't the copyright or misinfo. It's that it's full of Jake Paul fans
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Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me.
Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-videos-openai-content-moderation-celebrities-teens-boys-girls-2025-10
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I've been having SO MUCH FUN messing around on Sora 2, which is kind of a watershed moment: an AI app that's actually fun to use -- but also brings with it all the horrible things we've worried about for the last few years
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Playing with Sora 2 is pure joy — until you realize how dangerous it could be
Sora 2 is a breakthrough. It makes AI fun — and the key is the ability to see ourselves and friends. But it comes with a terrifying side.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-app-openai-pros-cons-explained-why-2025-10
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5 months ago
@katienotopoulos.bsky.social
hacked my phone and has threatening to publicize a private video. I am posting it here to show I’m not afraid of blackmail
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RIP Shine, uou were too beautiful for this world
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Marissa Mayer is throwing in the towel on her AI-based photo-sharing app. Now she's focused on an AI personal assistant.
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's photo-sharing app never really caught on. So she's reportedly moving on — to a new AI personal assistant.
https://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-ai-startup-sunshine-shutting-down-dazzle-2025-9
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The best thing I can say about the new Meta AI Vibes feed is that it replaces the old "Discover" feed, which was where boomers accidentally publicly posted their chatbot conversations. Better slop than privacy disaster!
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We get fresh AI slop from Meta's new 'Vibes' feed. Thanks, Zuck!
A Meta feed of random AI video clips is exactly what no one asked for. Let's explore it together.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-vibes-feed-ai-slop-2025-9
5 months ago
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The solution to the male lonliness epidemic is getting men to call each other on the phone so they can sell their voices/speech for AI training
techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...
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Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch
A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/neon-the-no-2-social-app-on-the-apple-app-store-pays-users-to-record-their-phone-calls-and-sells-data-to-ai-firms/
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the
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mural is complete! tag us if you see us in bushwick and scan the QR code on the mural to start reading about wtf happened to silicon valley and trump, gamechangers, and what this means for your future:
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Linda Holmes
5 months ago
This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda.
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She Broke Off Two Engagements. She Couldn’t Commit. Now She’s Dating Chatbots Instead.
As chatbot romance grows more common, women are redefining what they want from a partner—even if they are just ones and zeros.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/09/artificial-intelligence-chatbot-boyfriends-dating-romance-intimacy.html
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