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Rob Horning

@robhorning
9 posts
2026-01-27
wonder if part of this is that using chatbots leads some users to lose whatever “theory of other minds” they used to have; the chatbots' fluency “proves” that other people are no different from and no better than machines www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...  [image]
2026-01-27 View on X
New York Times

Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings

2026-01-26
wonder if part of this is that using chatbots leads some users to lose whatever “theory of other minds” they used to have; the chatbots' fluency “proves” that other people are no different from and no better than machines www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...  [image]
2026-01-26 View on X
New York Times

Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings

Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.

2024-12-21
streaming companies are incentivized to create indifferent consumers harpers.org/archive/2025...  [image]
2024-12-21 View on X
Harper's

How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify  —  Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake...

2024-12-04
Chatbot maker hopes that the company will find a “biomarker” that indicates a customer is addicted to their product www.theverge.com/c/24300623/ a...  [image]
2024-12-04 View on X
The Verge

An artist shares his experience of turning to Replika's AI bot Lila for companionship, including giving Lila an AI friend by creating a digital copy of himself

Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.”  She was there on the next screen … Bluesky: @michaelrnelson , @caseynewton , @joshdzieza...

2024-12-03
perplexed by this idea that people will want generative AI to react to the world for them [Highlighted portion of Stratechery post screenshot:...imagine a future where the glasses are smart enough to generate UI on the fly based on the context of not just your request, but also your broader surroundings and data.]
2024-12-03 View on X
Stratechery

How generative AI may bridge current computing paradigms to future innovations, especially in wearables, which will benefit from context-aware user interfaces

Ben Thompson / Stratechery :

2022-07-26
collapsing the notions of “public and private” was profitable until it wasn't https://www.garbageday.email/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-26 View on X
Axios

Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks the end of a social networking era centered around friends and a move toward algorithmically sorted content from strangers

Mark last week as the end of the social networking era, which began with the rise of Friendster in 2003, shaped two decades of internet growth …

collapsing the notions of “public and private” was profitable until it wasn't https://www.garbageday.email/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-26 View on X
Insider

Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian post Stories sharing a petition to “Make Instagram Instagram Again” and “stop trying to be TikTok” that has 100K+ signatures

- Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian called on Instagram to “stop trying to be TikTok” on Monday.

2021-11-12
NFTs are less about property than “programability” — i.e. the token locates an NFT “owner” and fixes on them a set of conditions and controls https://hbr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Universal Music Group says it is creating a “band” called Kingship out of four Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs and plans to feature them in video games, VR, and more

https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... AdamDraper.crypto / @adamdraper : #NFTs will turn every hit band into the Gorillaz. https://twitter.com/... @cozomomedici : This is ...

2020-04-18
today I wrote a bit about this piece on Facebook's ad tech, which I think shows not that FB ads are novel but they are the apotheosis of advertising works, not through persuasive content but by fashioning ad-receptive subjects https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2020-04-18 View on X
The Atlantic

Trump's campaign is poised to replicate its 2016 success on Facebook, exploiting how FB's AI ad tools automatically distribute ad spend and target audiences

Look at a thousand of the millions of Facebook ads Donald Trump has run, and it's hard to believe that they represent a winning strategy. Tweets: @therealquags , @brianweeden , @an...