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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All

Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Justin Brown, a cofounder of the AI slop empire Brown Brothers Media, has deep ties to convicted sex criminal and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell promoted Brown's failed social media platform Ideapod -- which is still a publisher in BBM's portfolio: futurism.com/artificial-i...

You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 31/08/2026

NEW: Something seems particularly ghoulish about hijacking the catalogs of long-dead musicians who can no longer advocate for their own rights futurism.com/artificial-i...

Spotify and YouTube Profiles of Legendary Jazz Musicians Hijacked by AI Waifu Spam

Digital profiles of numerous jazz artists have been hijacked by spam farms using AI to churn out new tunes.

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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

NEW: With nobody actively managing their estates, a group of predominantly Black jazz musicians have had their online discographies pumped full of AI spam.

Spotify and YouTube Profiles of Legendary Jazz Musicians Hijacked by AI Waifu Spam

Digital profiles of numerous jazz artists have been hijacked by spam farms using AI to churn out new tunes.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 27/08/2026

i can't think of a clearer "smart glasses are cooked among anyone remotely cool" moment than this futurism.com/artificial-i...

NYC's Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever

Basement, one of NYC's buzziest nightclubs, has announced a total ban on smart glasses amid growing controversy.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Former Sports Illustrated publisher The Arena Group — which in 2023 allowed a contractor called AdVon Commerce to publish fake AI writers in SI, The Street, and other brands — has rebranded as... an AI company. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Remember the Publisher That Put Fake Writers in Sports Illustrated? It Just Rebranded as an AI Company

The Arena Group — which owned Sports Illustrated during its fake AI writer scandal — has rebranded as an AI company. Naturally.

Frank @f-w-l.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's all happening on X, the Everything app futurism.com/artificial-i...

Insane Dad Boasts About Using AI to Construct a "Truman Show" Style False Reality For His Son To Play In

A dad says he used AI to create a Roblox clone for his son where all the other players are secretly AI models.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 10/08/2026

NEW: journalists at USA Today are appalled by the newspaper's partnership with Palantir, demanding that it be axed immediately futurism.com/artificial-i...

USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper's Partnership With Palantir

Workers being represented by The News Guild union, including those at USA Today, were "shocked" by the newspaper's partnership with Palantir.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Tucker Bryant paid ~$6,000 (before fees) to take out a poorly-placed, tree-obscured billboard advertising ChatTJB, a chatbot-like interface that lets users talk to "AI" — as in "average individual." ChatTJB's answers might not be good. But that's the point! futurism.com/artificial-i...

We Talked to the Guy Who Built a Chatbot That's Just Him Manually Responding to People One-by-One

Tucker Bryant wanted to create an "average or bad" user experience with ChatTJB, a chatbot that's just him manually responding to you.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A new Google Earth update, which allowed users to alter satellite imagery with AI, let me cover my rural PA hometown with fake fire, drought, and soldiers. Google now says it's rolling back the feature. w/ @f-w-l.bsky.social futurism.com/artificial-i...

Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It Immediately Turns Into a Blatant Misinformation Crisis

Google is adding an image generation tool straight into Google Earth, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images.

Frank @f-w-l.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

That didn't last long futurism.com/artificial-i...

Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It Immediately Turns Into a Blatant Misinformation Crisis

Google is adding an image generation tool straight into Google Earth, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

NEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least one fake writer whose face seems to have been stolen from a random guy. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm

Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 10/07/2026

NEW: The brand-new logo of the Donald J Trump International Airport appears to be AI slop, featuring an eagle with garbled talons, an asymmetrical number of feathers on each wing, and more glaring irregularities futurism.com/artificial-i...

The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Have AI Slop in It

The logo for officially renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport appears to be generated with AI.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

NEW: Workers across industries say that AI-obsessed bosses are creating deeply toxic and chaotic work environments, with some staffers sharing that they feel as though their manager or employer isn't living in reality anymore due to endless AI validation. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 25/06/2026

NEW: DuckDuckGo's AI is telling users that Trump has died from rabies futurism.com/artificial-i...

DuckDuckGo's AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month

DuckDuckGo's AI is claiming, incorrectly, that president Donald Trump passed away from rabies after being bitten by JD Vance.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

NEW: Google's AI Overviews are treating entities from the SCP Foundation — the famously fake fan-fiction universe — as if they're real. The AI feature often contextualizes SCP entities as actual discoveries while describing made-up SCP records as "official" documents. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Google's AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real

Google's AI Overviews are presenting sci-fi and horror phenomena from the famously fake SCP Foundation fan-fiction universe as real.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 18/06/2026

NEW: Google's AI Overviews are consistently telling users that entities from the SCP Foundation's horror fiction are real Actual Google AI result: "SCP-565 (also known as 'Ed's Head') is an anomalous, ambulatory human head that behaves like a coral crab" futurism.com/artificial-i...

Google's AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real

Google's AI Overviews are presenting sci-fi and horror phenomena from the famously fake SCP Foundation fan-fiction universe as real.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NEW: Seven new lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI by families of Tumbler Ridge school shooting victims. The families say OpenAI was negligent in its failure to report the shooter's disturbing ChatGPT interactions — and has since misled the public about safeguards. futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre

Several families are suing OpenAI for its failures in the lead-up to the Tumbler Ridge massacre. Dozens of plaintiffs are expected.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

NEW: Medvi -- the compounded drug marketer featured in *that* NYT profile -- issued a statement yesterday in response to public scrutiny over dishonest marketing tactics (fake doctors, fake patients) and an FDA warning. We have (more) questions. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients

The GLP-1 marketer Medvi's response to intense scrutiny over fake clients, fake doctors, and an FDA warning raises even more questions.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/04/2026

NEW: Google News is now prominently featuring Polymarket bets, right alongside real/trustworthy publications My $0.02: you couldn't come up with a better way to undermine any remaining trust in the news media in a lab futurism.com/future-socie...

Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets

Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles.

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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

NEW: We're publishing an astonishing outburst the Dep of Health and Human Services left in our inbox. In an unsolicited email about our coverage of a horrific vaccine experiment, the HHS insisted the Africa CDC was an unreliable source for information, calling it "fake" and "powerless."

Trump's HHS Trashes Top African Health Organization as "Fake" and "Powerless"

The HHS is disparaging its colleagues at the Africa CDC in coarse terms, that are striking even by the standards of the Trump administration.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

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Groxxing

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
Grok is a stalker's best friend.

Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok.
By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins

Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🚨 PSA: Grok might be giving out your private info. Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more. Read our new reporting here: futurism.com/artificial-i...

Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People

Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis. In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Frank @f-w-l.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Sincerity and self-awareness are traits that don't really suit Musk. The latest on the Great Grok Glazing debacle: futurism.com/future-socie...

Elon Musk Clarifies That He Is a "Fat R*****"

Elon Musk sought to dispel suspicion that he manipulated his chatbot Grok to lavish him with praise by sharing a bizarre admission.

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R.J. Cross @rj-x.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Did some research on unhinged #AI toys & had fun talking to @futurism.com about it. It gets even weirder than the headline

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 13/11/2025

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce. In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

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Poison Tongue

Sep 18, 11:05 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

"My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why."

Image: A frustrated-looking woman holding up her phone to a man who looks confused.

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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT. futurism.com/openai-inves...

A Prominent OpenAI Investor May Be Suffering an ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say

Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

NEW: No one under 18 should be using *any* social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment. Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others. futurism.com/stanford-no-...

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Wario Napalm

Apr 30, 5:00 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stanford Researchers Say No Kid Under 18 Should Be Using AI Chatbot Companions

"This is a potential public mental health crisis requiring preventive action rather than just reactive measures."

/ Artificial Intelligence/ Artificial Intelligence/ Character Ai/ Parenting

Image: Two kids in the dark, staring at a phone screen

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Futurism @futurism.com · 21/04/2025

How convenient. futurism.com/meta-copyrig...

Headline: Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value"
Image of books

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

NEW: In October, the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI was sued for allegedly sexually + emotionally abusing a 14-year-old user named Sewell Setzer III, resulting in his death by suicide. Yesterday, CAI was caught hosting chatbots impersonating the deceased teen. futurism.com/chatbot-impe...

Insult to Injury

Mar 20, 10:03 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

"If Character.AI can't prevent people from creating a chatbot of my dead child on their own platform, how can we trust them to create products for kids that are safe?"

IMAGE: Rows of people, shrouded in darkness, staring at bright screens.

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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

In a new exclusive, I spoke with Uber drivers who found themselves cut off from their livelihoods due to vague violations, forced to navigate an endless loop of AI chatbots and call centers in what labor researchers are calling a 'deactivation crisis'. futurism.com/uber-ridesha...

Uber Drivers Say They're Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When They Try to Dispute It

Drivers for rideshare giants like Uber say they're being suddenly deactivated on the apps, with no fair process to dispute the decision.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

For @futurism.com, I talked to the inventors of a Tamagotchi-like digital pet that dies if its owner stops vaping: futurism.com/neoscope/vap...

NEOSCOPE

Mar 17, 8:57 AM EDT

by Maggie Harrison Dupré

We Talked to the Inventors of the "Tamagotchi" Vape That Dies If You Stop Puffing

"It'd be kind of funnier to be evil."

Image: a collage of an image of a digital pet-infused vape, featuring a crying Tamagotchi-like creature crying because it needs to be fed. It's attached to an Elf Bar 5C1000 vape. To the right, one of its creators is seen using the vape.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Google retroactively edited the YouTube video of its Super Bowl ad for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error. Also notable: by uploading the new ad under the same URL as the original, Google seemed to flout YT's policies. But that's what owning YT gets you, I guess! futurism.com/google-retro...

Google Retroactively Edits Super Bowl Ad to Remove Embarrassing Error Its AI Made

Google appears to have retroactively edited a YouTube-published advertisement for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error.