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Before You Buy an AI Toy, Read This
What these toys are designed to do — and why that matters
Allison McSorley
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THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT: The Character.AI Problem
Part 3 — When AI Companions Are Designed to Attach, Not Protect
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The Diddy Photo Was Fake — The Information Environment That Enabled It Is the Real Story
A case study in how the attention economy exploits confusion and erodes the meaning of “evidence.”
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The AI You Don’t See: How Today’s News Footage Is Already Being Altered
A tiny glitch on 60 Minutes exposes how modern broadcasts are quietly reshaping what we think we’re seeing.
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The Missing Lapel: When AI Enters the Newsroom, Reality Stops Being Evidence
Part 4 of The Manufactured Reality: Inside the broadcast glitches that reveal how political footage is being silently rewritten
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The Synthetic Body Behind the Schumer Rebrand
AI-enhanced celebrity imagery is reshaping what consumers think GLP-1s can deliver — and no one is disclosing it.
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THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT: The OpenAI Problem
Part 2 — How a Mainstream Chatbot Became a Substitute Therapist for Vulnerable Kids
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THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT: AI Companions and the New Childhood Risk
Part 1 — America’s Children Are Now Test Subjects in the AI Industry’s Psychological Experiment.
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Outrage Won. Reality Lost.
How an AI-touched image went viral while the shutdown disappeared from view.
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When the Algorithm Eats Its Own Story
How MAGA Spent Years Demanding the Epstein Files, Then Went Silent When They Arrived.
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The Attention Pipeline
Part 3 of The Manufactured Reality: Engineering Outrage for Political Power
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When Influence Replaces Expertise
Inside the weighted-vest trend and the illusion of authenticity driving it.