Between 2022 and 2025, AI companion apps grew by 700%.
The tech sector did not create the isolation. It recognised it as an unmonetised asset.
New piece on the blog.

https://calamur.org/gargi/2026/05/17/ai-loneliness-endless-conversation/

The web is not being taken over by AI.
It is being flooded by cheap production and filtered by increasingly powerful gatekeepers.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91535495/dead-internet-theory-coming-true-new-research-stanford-calculates-where-we-are

AI has a brain the size of a planet and the judgment of an infant.
It is eager, confident, and fast. It does not know what not to do. Judgment is what failure teaches. AI has never failed. It has only been corrected.
#ai

https://calamur.substack.com/p/the-ai-in-the-room?r=2hr7o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything,”
I write on the weaponization of #Research by interested parties - be it the anti abortion lobby or the anti vaccines lobby.
#TrustInScience #researchIntegrity #academicMastodon

https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/analysis-the-weaponisation-of-research-is-science-becoming-a-tool-for-deception

I am hoping an "intelligent" chat bot will hand me over a fortune, with all the legal disclaimers in place :)

Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
The airline tried to argue that it shouldn't be liable for anything its chatbot says.

https://www.wired.com/story/air-canada-chatbot-refund-policy/

My mother "Marriage is an institution"

Me "so is an insane asylum".

Needless to say she wasn't amused.

I write about the "threats" to marriage that legislators and jurists are trying to defend.

https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/analysis-the-threats-to-the-institution-of-marriage

I write on the challenges facing the Republic of India that we need to navigate carefully for the Free Press Journal

https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-republic-at-74-challenges-on-the-road-ahead

Google’s New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/01/new-ai-powered-google-chrome-browser-end-of-human-internet.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fgoogle

of late there has been a lot of discussion around #PredatoryJournals and Academic Researchers who get duped.
How do you distinguish between a predatory and an authentic journal?
#academicpublishing #AcademicMastodon

https://www.editage.com/insights/how-do-i-distinguish-between-a-predatory-and-an-authentic-journal