This is a BBC hour long podcast on the demise of a 14-year old boy who was using a chatbot that pretended to be a Game of Thrones character who was in love with him.
For context, The Guardian was the source of the review that freelancer writer generated via AI. So, they had their work stolen on a grand scale.
What is fascinating to me is that the AI frenzy has created an area where people of radically different ideologies can find common ground. Chuck Norris was famously right wing in his ideology, but his family is horrified by this.
I think you'll see more of this, because my understanding is more RW spaces are particularly being flooded with manipulative slop and scams, especially targeting the elderly.
This is a pretty thoughtful, well-written article about parents groups trying to stop Youtube Kids from its Slop Infection.
If I had a little kid, I would probably ban smart phones and ipads from the house.
That's what most parents who work for big tech do, after all.
One thing AI seems to be really good at is revealing people's stupidity and laziness.
It's also interesting that he thought he could do a book review with AI, and he didn't think that there would be very few new reviews for the plagiarism machine to churn through. So, it basically spit The Guardian's review back out.