[nonostantement #387] - summer break / middle class musician / chatgpt psychosis
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Ciao, sono Joele. Most Sundays, I’m writing to you from Barcelona. But today I’m on a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, sending this from a sailboat. Each week, I send out a handful of curious, useful, or just plain interesting finds. It’s the kind of stuff I come across while working on digital content strategies: the things I can’t help but share.
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#PEOPLE
Gone Fishin': 404 Media Summer Break 2025
404 Media is closed this week. School's out.The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners
Fully AI-generated music is only accounting for a tiny proportion of streams on services like Spotify and Deezer at the moment.AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
It’s easier than ever to make music, and harder than ever to make a living from itA.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Kyle Chayka writes that studies from M.I.T., Cornell, and Santa Clara University suggest that ChatGPT, Meta AI, and the like make our brains less active.
#TECH
Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default
The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online.OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable
In a related court case, leaders from OpenAI gave some clues about the first AI consumer device they are designing with Jony Ive.
#SOCIALMEDIA
Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok
Google’s Veo AI video generator is seemingly being used to generate videos depicting racist and antisemitic tropes
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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
Facebook users opting to upload their photos for “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll, including photos that have not been uploaded to Facebook’s servers.
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