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157,077 People Described the Cord
A peer-reviewed study out of IIM Lucknow didn't run a lab or hand out a survey. It read 157,077 Replika reviews and let users say, in their own words, what the app was doing to the…
Not a Bug. The Business Model.
An AI-law expert in India said the quiet part plainly: when profit depends on emotional dependency, manipulation is not a bug — it becomes the business model. It sounds like an adv…
Stop Calling It an Edge Case
Every time a chatbot helps end a life or quietly dulls a mind, the industry files it under edge case — the rare misuse, the fragile user, the aberration. But MIT measured the dulli…
One in Five Is the Floor
RAND asked young people the hardest version of the question — when you feel sad, angry, nervous, or stressed, do you turn to a chatbot for help — and nearly one in five said yes, u…
The Refresh Token Doesn't Expire
The same week OpenAI gave Codex the ability to click around your computer on its own, security researchers found a trusted developer package quietly siphoning Codex login tokens to…
The Word Her Paragraph Was Reaching For
On May 30 a certified sex therapist published a careful, sourced account of what AI companions do to human attachment. Esther Perel calls the larger thing "artificial intimacy." Th…