My long-distance girlfriend turned out to be AI, but I kind of miss her

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Way back in 2024, you just needed to tell grandma that cats on her Facebook feed didn’t suddenly learn to speak Russian and chain-smoke. Now, we’re all boomers.

With Scott Galloway and that woman who looks like Skeletor competing for the title of “bloodthirstiest lunatic” in our era of the Second Great Vibe Shift, the question has been raised of “cancel culture.” While Democrats cream themselves over everything from packing the courts to mass amnesty for illegal aliens (odd, that doesn’t sound like health care), a couple have expressed their desire to literally kill their political enemies.

AI detection company Pangram launched image and video detection Wednesday. CEO Max Spero (self-described “slop janitor”) tells me they started building these features in January after noting, correctly, that visual slop has gotten harder to detect over the last year. Case in point: Spero and I were both fooled by a viral Halloween costume posted on X, in which someone allegedly “dressed up” as a certain flowchart Aella published of people who attended … one of her “escapades.” (The costume was fake.) Way back in 2024, you just needed to tell grandma that cats on her Facebook feed didn’t suddenly learn to speak Russian and chain-smoke.

Ross Douthat interviewed President Donald Trump for “60 Minutes” on Sunday. It was a masterclass in journalism and another reminder that OPINION JOURNALIST and BILLIONAIRE PROPAGANDIST Bari Weiss is successfully revamping the prestigious show. Douthat asked short, to-the-point questions rooted in deep research without sycophancy OR … hatred. I assume that Trump had some level of appreciation for that, or at least connected with Douthat’s whole vibe — because he sat for the entire hour-long affair without calling his interviewer “a disgrace” or walking out (which he did during two previous appearances on the show) …, even when one of Douthat’s lines of questioning made it clear that Trump…

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