tech founders keep pitching a vision of our digital avatars living and dating in a virtual universe and it’s precisely the opposite of what people want (they want to be trading friendship bracelets and crying in a stadium of other Taylor Swift fans)

.Kat Rosenfield brings Momala’s receipts

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When Lillian-Yvonne Bertram won the DIAGRAM chapbook contest for a project that was “generated” using chatGPT, there was enormous backlash from the writing community. I wrote about the controversy for the AI issue of reason

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For my latest, I spent some time with families who found themselves navigating a particularly inexplicable, isolating experience:

'What happens — what does it mean, what do you do — when, one day, your child tells you they remember being someone else?'
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'If I saw my therapist giving advice on tiktok I would kill her,' is a pretty exemplative Twitter response to the concept of 'TikTok therapists,' but I chatted to some therapists and clients who are actually navigating this relationship, for Bustle: bustle.com/wellness/my-th…