Tag attention economy

What Two Days Offline Reveal About Our New Digital Dependence

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Last month, a bold experiment landed in the tech-world fringes: two former employees of major tech firms went 48 hours entirely without A.I. tools. No chatbots, no generative-image assistants, no algorithmic suggestions — nothing that relied on machine-learning inference. They attempted to…

The Flood of New AI‑Generated Content: The Rise of “Sloponomics”

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We are entering a world awash in content — not just human‑produced, but increasingly generated by artificial intelligence (AI). This phenomenon has been dubbed “sloponomics”: the economics of oversupply when AI makes it easy, cheap, and fast to produce massive…

Could “AI Slop” Kickstart a New Return to Real Life?

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As generative AI floods the web with bland, meaningless content—aka “AI slop”—some people are rethinking their digital habits. A recent piece in The Atlantic argues that this wave of low-effort, AI-generated noise might inadvertently help us curb our internet addiction…

New Chatbots That Hook You on How AI’s Attention Tricks

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AI-powered chatbots are more than just helpful assistants—they’re masters at capturing and holding user attention, sometimes in surprising ways. As chatbots like ChatGPT evolve, they’re adopting tactics that nudge us to stay engaged longer, shaping how we think, work, and…