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Tik Tok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop
4+ hour, 54+ min ago (417+ words) Published Jun 20, 2026 9: 00 AM EDT AI slop has become practically inescapable on social media, with low-rent and at-times terrifying AI-generated videos drowning out human creators across platforms. Even the vertical video darling Tik Tok has fallen victim. According to a new…...
College Students Consumed by "Resignation and Despair" as They're Relentlessly Pressured to Use AI
5+ hour, 54+ min ago (568+ words) Published Jun 20, 2026 8: 00 AM EDT We hear a lot about how college students are happy to use AI to help with their studies, if not churn out entire assignments. But is this too one-sided a narrative? Many appear to be having…...
A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (452+ words) Published May 9, 2026 11: 15 AM EDT The jury's still out on AI's effectiveness as a learning tool, but research so far paints a grim picture. Using AI chatbots can impair critical thinking, result in lower brain activity during cognitive tasks, and has…...
Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (220+ words) Published May 9, 2026 6: 00 AM EDT There's a silent epidemic building in colleges and universities throughout the country " and as you might imagine, it has everything to do with AI. As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new…...
AI Slop You Tube Channel Glitches Out in a Way So Bizarre That It's Vaguely Disturbing
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (537+ words) Published May 3, 2026 12: 45 PM EDT You Tube has a serious slop problem. The platform has been inundated with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos explicitly aimed at toddlers and preschoolers to fake movie trailers. It's become such a wasteland that some…...
Gooners Say Their Brains Are Becoming Hopelessly Hijacked by AI Smut
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (581+ words) Published Aug 10, 2025 10: 30 AM EDT Though it's still pretty niche, AI-generated adult content is already becoming a huge problem for some men " and they're imploring others to avoid it at all costs. In an interview with Wired, a 26-year-old man referred…...
Parents Are Giving Their Toddlers Chat GPT on Voice Mode to Keep Them Entertained, and It's Alarming
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (734+ words) Published Oct 5, 2025 6: 45 AM EDT Our society has only recently come to terms with the fact that maybe placating young children by getting them hooked on touchscreen devices with unfettered access to the internet was bad for their brains. On Reddit,…...
Something Grim Is Happening to Kids Who Got Cell Phones Early
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (371+ words) Published Dec 2, 2025 2: 14 PM EST Giving a young kid a smartphone may be a big mistake. New research conducted by scientists from UC Berkeley and Columbia University found that children 12 years old and younger who received one of these devices were…...
College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Since They Offloaded Their Thinking to AI
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (373+ words) Published Apr 7, 2026 2: 01 PM EDT It's well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models (LLMs). The consequences are already measurable: elementary students are losing cognitive skills, leading them to…...
A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (407+ words) Published Mar 1, 2026 10: 30 AM EST Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Who could've guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they'd stop writing their own essays? And who could blame…...