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Everyday AI
AI is making our screen time more solitary. People are pushing back.
A growing number of writers and researchers argue that as AI fills our feeds with personalised, automated content, something ordinary and important is slipping away: the experience of watching, reading, or listening to the same thing at the same time as strangers.
4 min read
Everyday AI
Plenty of Everything, Enjoyment of Nothing: Are We Living Through Joyless Decadence?
Academics argue that AI tools and modern abundance have not made life more fun. They may have quietly killed our capacity to enjoy anything at all.
3 min read
Everyday AI
A Researcher Says Virality Is Lying to You About What's Actually Trending
NYU cyber-ethnographer Ruby Thelot argues the internet has splintered into isolated bubbles where engineered viral moments rack up millions of views without touching real culture. His book lands this autumn.
4 min read