Substack CEO says AI can drive a slop future or a cultural renaissance

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Substack CEO Chris Best says AI could flood the internet with slop — or give creators leverage to spark a cultural renaissance.

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Matilda Djerf, the Scandi influencer-turned-designer, says she's never spent a week fully unplugged

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Matilda Djerf says she has never spent a week fully unplugged.

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New startups race to bring back the 'old internet' vibes of the 2000s

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6 OnlyFans stats that show how massive the platform has become

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OnlyFans continues to grow, with $7.2 billion spent on the platform last year.

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How a family-owned tamale shop in LA struck marketing gold using AI: 'I made it in 10 minutes'

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The Original Tamale Company made an ad using AI that has gone mega-viral.

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Researchers built a social network made of AI bots. They quickly formed cliques, amplified extremes, and let a tiny elite dominate.

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The researchers populated a minimal social network with 500 AI chatbots and found that they replicated social media's dysfunctions.

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There's a new 'Tea' app going viral. This time, it's for men to post anonymously about women.

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I was horribly lonely in my mid-20s. Then I realized: I was a boring, flaky friend.

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It took me time to become someone who throws my cat birthday parties.

Julia Pugachevsky

Duolingo's CEO says he learned a hard lesson about 'edgy posts' and going viral

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Luis von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo, at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 14, 2023.
Luis von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo, said AI could help speed up the integration of languages into the app.

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'Fawning' is Gen Z's new fight-or-flight response

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Gen Zers can struggle with people-pleasing because they have more ways to feel rejected.

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