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Consumer & Creative

Meta’s Muse Outpaces ChatGPT’s Early Mobile Launch

Third-party estimates put Muse ahead of ChatGPT's first 12 mobile days on comparable downloads and active users, though Meta has not released its own figures.

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Consumer & Creative

Chatbot Fiction Is Becoming a Reader-Led Genre

Prompt research and user interviews suggest a concentrated audience wants instant, private and endlessly adjustable stories despite major dataset and quality limits.

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Consumer & Creative

AI-Generated Menus Are Converging on the Same Uncanny Look

Perfectly smooth food images reveal how training data and repeated edits can push generative AI toward a homogeneous style that customers instinctively distrust.

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Consumer & Creative

Gemini’s Expanding Feature Brands Make AI Harder to Use

Google says Gemini should understand a request without forcing users to choose a tool, yet separate brands for Chat, Spark and Daily Brief expose the app’s internal complexity.

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Consumer & Creative

The AI Masturbation Experiment That Raises More Questions Than Answers

Joi AI paid participants to test AI-guided sexual wellness, but its self-reported findings cannot support the company’s wider claims about addiction or loneliness.

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Consumer & Creative

Viral Metrics Are Losing Their Grip on Real Culture

Cyber-ethnographer Ruby Thelot argues that algorithmic visibility increasingly creates isolated digital trends that can look bigger and more culturally important than they are.

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Consumer & Creative

A Human-Powered Chatbot Turns AI Hype Into Performance Art

ChatTJB answers AI-style prompts with one real person, using delay, humor and a billboard to question automation culture.

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Consumer & Creative

Instagram’s AI Rewards Human Attention, Not Just More Content

Instagram uses AI across ranking, production and messages, but brands still need human originality, judgement and deliberate support handoffs.

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Consumer & Creative

AI Influencers Face a New Test: Being Synthetic Without Being Deceptive

Virtual influencers are attracting brand money, but EU disclosure rules are making transparency part of the creative product.

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Consumer & Creative

Hollywood’s AI Debate Is Moving From Adoption to Control

Generative AI is already entering Hollywood workflows, shifting the fight toward ownership, contracts and who captures the savings.

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