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Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

Anna Good

A pendulum swinging over a Reddit post with floating ChatGPT symbols in the background. Caption: " A Little Context: A few months ago, I quit nicotine. Not with willpower. Not with patches. Not with therapy because I was too broke for that lol. I used ChatGPT."

Culture

Reddit user says they quit smoking with a custom ChatGPT prompt built for ‘conversational hypnosis’

Rachel Kiley is a writer who sometimes writes things and sometimes is based in L.A., but is definitely always on Twitter @rachelkiley.

Rachel Kiley

2 panel image: on the left an AI generated screenshot of Barron Trump singing into a microphone. On the right an AI generated screenshot of Barron Trump smiling and playing the guitar

Boomers are falling for AI deepfakes of Barron Trump singing on ‘America’s Got Talent’—here’s why it matters

Hope Talbot is a freelance journalist currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The Daily Express, Euronews, and Bristol24/7, to name a few.

Hope Talbot

Tech

Hacker finds Grok 3 backdoor day before launch—as Musk’s DOGE feeds government data to AI

Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.

Lindsey Weedston

Screenshot from @jara.natura's Instagram of an anglerfish floating to the surface of the ocean; Screenshot from @savannahbellexoxo with the caption "Me explaining the anglerfish who swam to the surface to my boyfriend".

‘The way I sobbed’: The internet is mourning the deep-sea anglerfish who swam to the surface to die

Katka is a journalist who is chronically online. She uses her background in social media to surface trending content and commentary shaping contemporary internet culture. Previous bylines include HelloGiggles, Best Life, Lonely Planet, HuffPost, SheKnows and more.

Katka Lapelosa

‘I use like 30 em dashes a day’: Someone said the em dash is an AI tell—and writers aren’t having it

Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

Katherine Huggins

Ai Scarlett Johannson(l) and Adam Sandler(r) with blurred out middle finger on hand with jewish star and the name Kanye beneathe it. Adam is also giving a blurred out middle finger.

‘Makes me proud’: AI video of Adam Sandler giving the finger to Kanye dupes posters

Phil West is a veteran professional writer and editor, and his works include two nonfiction books and articles in myriad print and online publications.

Phil West

‘This is a land grab’: Expert asks Claude if he should accept a $2,500 work proposal. He gets a chilling response

Rebecca Leib

‘Look at the 3-fingered man’: Marvel says AI wasn’t used in ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ posters, but fans point to ‘obvious’ signs

Jason Wilson is an investigative reporter based in Portland, Oregon.

Jason Wilson

Photo of Ethan Shaotran over a photo of Elon Musk and The Capitol Building.

He’s working on Elon Musk’s ‘plutocratic coup.’ Last year, he won a $100,000 grant to promote ‘democratic governance’ in AI

2 panel image: on the left is a post from a Reddit user and on the right is the Tiktok logo with a banned symbol over it.

‘Women with large chests have a harder time getting videos approved’: Alleged Ex-TikTok insider reveals what really gets your content removed

A meme of a cat scan machine with the captions "How does it look doc?" and "Yeah one second bro"; The logo for ChatGPT is seen on a computer screen.

Memes

‘So accurate it’s not funny’: The ChatGPT Scan meme imagines a grim future

Kai Cenat Kicking robot(l), Man talking(c), Text "yall have never played detroit become human and it shows...maybe give that game a try instead of fortnite next time!"

‘It’s built like a small child’: Kai Cenat kicks and bullies a $70K AI robot until it tries to escape—sparking major backlash

Nate Wolf is a reporter based in New York City. His work has appeared in the Chief, InsuranceNewsNet, and Deadspin.

Nate Wolf

The OpenAI logo on a red tech background next to the DeepSeek logo on a blue tech background.

‘Hypocritical babies’: OpenAI’s myriad lawsuits flagged after accusing DeepSeek of intellectual property theft

Tweet that says "ugh... she doesn't want to date chatgpt" with retweet "aio? message from my boyfriend for my 30th birthday written by ai" and post "i'm truly at a loss for a words to"

‘Should I say something?’: Woman doesn’t know how to respond after her boyfriend sends ChatGPT-generated birthday text

Roy Stephen is a N.Y.-based freelance journalist covering the gig economy. His work was previously featured on Inc. Magazine, the US Sun, and the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Roy Canivel

Illustration showing an eye symbol with both the Chinese and United States flag in it. Surrounded by branching circuitry.

AI