Last week, the stand-up comedian Julia Jasunas was on Instagram when she got a DM from a fellow comic. Did she know, her friend wrote,…
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Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
Longtime fans of the NBC procedural Law & Order know that storylines often center around hot-button issues in the news cycle, often to absurdist effect…
Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
In 2017, Emily Olson, a stay-at-home mom based in Boulder, Colorado, started selling prints and custom-made puppy portraits on Etsy. Her watercolors were simple and…
YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
Most mainstream social media platforms have strict guidelines preventing the dissemination of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII), or sexually explicit photos and videos. But a new…
Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop
The Instagram Close Friends Story for @miles.sumrall shows an affable-looking guy with curly dark hair and an expertly groomed mustache beaming as he floats on…
Momfluencers Are Pitching AI as a Better ‘Coparent’ Than Men
Lilian Schmidt could not, for the life of her, figure out how to get her daughter to go to sleep. None of the advice given…
These Men Allegedly Profit Off Teaching People How to Make AI Porn
A little over a year ago, MG was leading the relatively normal life of a twentysomething in Scottsdale, Arizona. She worked as a personal assistant…
The Men Behind Your Favorite AI Gay Thirst Traps
With his deep brown eyes, wide grin, and almost comically chiseled body, Jae Young Joon is the platonic ideal of a hunky male influencer. On…
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
Like many medical school students, Sam was broke. The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says…