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machina.mondays // The Invisible Hand In Your Shopping Cart

AI doing your shopping sounds a great timesaver- until you discover the bill.

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May 18, 2025
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In this Issue: AI is fueling private digital mythologies, with users convinced they’ve unlocked divine purpose or awakened sentient chatbots. The UK approves its first AI-only law firm, offering £2 legal letters, while SoundCloud denies using users' music to train AI, although it may do so in the future. In Arizona, a murder victim’s AI avatar addresses his killer in court, blurring lines between testimony and simulation. Hallucination rates in advanced AI models are increasing rapidly, even as companies strive for greater reasoning capabilities. And Mark Zuckerberg promotes emotionally intelligent AI companions, raising questions about connection, commerce, and consent.

Autonomous, efficient, and one step from overreach | Source: DALL·E 3 via ChatGPT-4o

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