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AI slop myths, debunked: What’s harmful, what’s hype, what’s just meh
AI slop, which we used to simply be called spam, now includes impressive but overwhelming content, muddying the definition as both a technical marvel and a source of digital pollution. While advanced tools like Open AI’s text-to-video generator, Meta Vibes or Sora 2 videos, aren’t slop in themselves, like any generative tool they can flood…
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Media Briefing: Overheard at the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe, October 2025 edition
This week’s Media Briefing looks at what publishers attending the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe had to say about the existential threat of site traffic losses and AI search tools encroaching on their businesses. Publishers have lost hope that traffic will ever bounce back Google Discover promotes fake news articles, Boston Globe launches paywall, and more.…
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Am I a type A personality – and should I care? | Arwa Mahdawi
Videos about personality science are going viral on social media, but beware of giving them credence … In the 1950s, a secretary in a San Francisco medical office noticed something weird: some of the chairs in the waiting room needed to be reupholstered more frequently than others. Patients with coronary disease, she realised, nearly always…
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Am I a type A personality – and should I care? | Arwa Mahdawi
Videos about personality science are going viral on social media, but beware of giving them credence … In the 1950s, a secretary in a San Francisco medical office noticed something weird: some of the chairs in the waiting room needed to be reupholstered more frequently than others. Patients with coronary disease, she realised, nearly always…
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Am I a type A personality – and should I care? | Arwa Mahdawi
Videos about personality science are going viral on social media, but beware of giving them credence … In the 1950s, a secretary in a San Francisco medical office noticed something weird: some of the chairs in the waiting room needed to be reupholstered more frequently than others. Patients with coronary disease, she realised, nearly always…
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Am I a type A personality – and should I care? | Arwa Mahdawi
Videos about personality science are going viral on social media, but beware of giving them credence … In the 1950s, a secretary in a San Francisco medical office noticed something weird: some of the chairs in the waiting room needed to be reupholstered more frequently than others. Patients with coronary disease, she realised, nearly always…
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Am I a type A personality – and should I care? | Arwa Mahdawi
Videos about personality science are going viral on social media, but beware of giving them credence … In the 1950s, a secretary in a San Francisco medical office noticed something weird: some of the chairs in the waiting room needed to be reupholstered more frequently than others. Patients with coronary disease, she realised, nearly always…
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Am I a type A personality – and should I care? | Arwa Mahdawi
Videos about personality science are going viral on social media, but beware of giving them credence … In the 1950s, a secretary in a San Francisco medical office noticed something weird: some of the chairs in the waiting room needed to be reupholstered more frequently than others. Patients with coronary disease, she realised, nearly always…
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Am I a type A personality – and should I care? | Arwa Mahdawi
Videos about personality science are going viral on social media, but beware of giving them credence … In the 1950s, a secretary in a San Francisco medical office noticed something weird: some of the chairs in the waiting room needed to be reupholstered more frequently than others. Patients with coronary disease, she realised, nearly always…
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Am I a type A personality – and should I care? | Arwa Mahdawi
Videos about personality science are going viral on social media, but beware of giving them credence … In the 1950s, a secretary in a San Francisco medical office noticed something weird: some of the chairs in the waiting room needed to be reupholstered more frequently than others. Patients with coronary disease, she realised, nearly always…