If the slop economy describes what happens when content production becomes cheap, the automation of persuasion describes what happens when content selection and personalization are

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One of the most damaging uses of generative AI does not involve persuasion, belief, or ideology. It involves identity. Voice cloning scams, non-consensual synthetic

Education technology is often defended as a benign domain for AI: low stakes, high upside, and morally intuitive. Helping people learn is good; helping them

AI “companion” systems are often framed as a wellness tool, a harmless novelty, or—more defensively—as “just another chat product.” None of those descriptions