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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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Is Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, actually real? Kind of

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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ChatGPT is retiring some of its models ahead of Valentine’s Day. What about the AI boyfriends and girlfriends?

Jamie Jirak has been working as an entertainment journalist since 2017. In addition to The Daily Dot, you can find her latest work at SlashFilm and That Hashtag Show. Jamie resides in Los Angeles and co-hosts two podcasts, Phase Hero and Love in the Time of Hydra. She loves moderating panels and has done so for Marvel, Disney, Netflix, and more. Follow her on Letterboxd: @JamieJirak.

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The director of “One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5” addresses those ChatGPT accusations

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“Please trust us with your PERSONAL HEALTH DETAILS?”: Experts warn against giving bots your medical records after OpenAI revealed “ChatGPT Health”

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“One Reddit tab open”: Fans scrutinize browser screenshots from the “Stranger Things” Netflix documentary

Left: Surgeon wearing makeup and scrubs, looking into the camera, text overlay reads, "Asking ChatGPT what the most ridiculous question I asked this year was." Right: ChatGPT screenshot showing the LLM answering a surgeon's "most ridiculous question" of 2025.

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“We are so in hell”: Surgeon roasted for asking ChatGPT medical questions

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Women are asking ChatGPT to reveal their most unhinged question of 2025 in a new TikTok trend

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“Have things ever been worse?”: Sam Altman said he “cannot imagine” raising a kid without ChatGPT

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“I accused all my family of being Satanic”: Man goes public as an “AI psychosis survivor”

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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“Immediately using this”: What is a Slopper? The AI insult about people too obsessed with ChatGPT

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“Levels of loserdom previously unknown to mankind:” ChatGPT says erotica is coming. People have some thoughts

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Left: 2 positive pregnancy tests, caption overlay reads, "Mommy who was the first person to know you were pregnant?" Right: Tweet reading "We need to go back to landlines and dial-up internet until we sort this out i’m not kidding"

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“Not your parents? Not the father?”: Woman says ChatGPT was the first to know she’s pregnant

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“New age of internet censorship”: Reddit to block the Internet Archive from indexing its site. Here’s why it matters

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“We’ve officially entered the ‘Black Mirror’ season finale”: Woman gets engaged to AI chatbot after 5 months of dating. The internet can’t agree if it’s sweet or sad

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