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Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

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Charlotte Colombo

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“Garishly ugly”: Outrage brews over The Sphere’s “Wizard of Oz” featuring AI upscaling that erases key details of the film—and makes up others

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“Your customers do not want this”: Movie fans outraged by IMAX’s  announcement of a new AI film festival

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.

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Lindsey Weedston

Left: Tweet reading "They're calling it the worst tweet of all time" Right: AI-generated image of streamer MrBeast next to his fiancee and AI-generated children

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Culture

MrBeast’s “repugnant” AI baby tweet sparks fury, memes, and existential dread

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.

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Anna Good

Left: Tweet reading "Anna wintour has only been gone 2 weeks and its gone to sh** already" Right: Photo of AI model in Vogue magazine

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“Cheap, chintzy, lazy”: Readers are canceling their Vogue subscriptions after AI-generated models appear in August issue

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“You dirty clanker”: We finally have a derogatory term for AI robots

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

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Rachel Kiley

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“Worst combination of words I’ve ever seen”: Elon Musk announces he’s “bringing back Vine”—with an AI catch

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Memes

“Educate me”: John Mayer explaining Italian brainrot memes to Conan O’Brien is a lesson for the truly offline

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“I’ve never seen a mental illness accelerate so rapidly”: Can ChatGPT send you into a psychosis? Here’s what we know

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Entertainment

“Ike is going to kill this in a way Elon is not going to like”: Ike Barinholtz was just cast as Elon Musk in Sam Altman biopic “Artificial”

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Viral Politics

“This is how the world ends”: Here’s how the internet is reacting to Elon Musk teasing “baby Grok AI” for kids

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Too many people are convinced “The Simpsons” predicted the Coldplay couple, sparking a discussion about media literacy in the age of AI

Rebekah is a freelance reporter for the Daily Dot.

Rebekah Harding

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“1,000 waters”: Man is sick of ordering from an AI voice at Taco Bell’s drive thru. Then he throws them a curveball

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“Food be tasting funny when a clown is in the kitchen”: Popeyes mocked for creating McDonald’s “diss track” with AI after Snack Wraps released

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“Never pictured it as being a goth anime girl”: Elon Musk touts “pretty cool” Grok AI companions for premium subscribers, but not everyone agrees

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“The era of copy-paste creators is over”: YouTube is changing its monetization rules targeting “inauthentic content”