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Multiple readings Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Reaction converging Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work Policy & governance · 4 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Erin Kissane
“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Shannon Vallor Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest Hypervisible Cat Hicks Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social Nick Seaver +5
3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Hypervisible : 🤷🏿‍♂️
evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
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Character.ai bankruptcy documents reveal

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Alexander Howard
“The circumstances of CharacterAI’s bankruptcy “are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen”— @jasonkoebler.bsky.social They, lit money on fire running its product, did not earn much revenue, & faced huge legal fees after causing harm. Enshi…” evidence ↗
9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna Shannon Vallor 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Alexander Howard Social Media Lab Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈 +1
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
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Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows the economics of AI don't work: www.404media.co/character-a…”

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The circumstances of CharacterAI’s bankruptcy “are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen”— @jasonkoebler.bsky.social They, lit money on fire running its product, did not earn much revenue, & faced huge legal fees after causing harm. Enshi…”

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Joseph Cox: Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows…
SwiftOnSecurity: GenZ has no money to goon
Dr J. Rosenbaum: Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows…
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2 experts · 45 posts · 10d ago
Shannon Vallor Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“If one refuses to consider tests for these qualities, then one isn't arguing, one is just making blank assertions from biases and motivated reasoning” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: The strongest statement I make is "I don't know" and I've never been proven wrong yet
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: Are there really? I see some people speculating or positing consciousness but I don't see many people making that as a bold assertion It may be my moots are more restrained
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2 experts · 3 posts · 20d ago
Shannon Vallor D. Hicks
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“Because the discourse is making us all crazy, look upon the face of a dog more blessed than any human, for she has never heard the word superintelligence” evidence ↗
Shannon Vallor: Because the discourse is making us all crazy, look upon the face of a dog more blessed than any human, for she has never heard the word superintelligence
Shannon Vallor: woke is when naptime ends and I open the crate. What else could it possibly mean?
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