My long-distance girlfriend turned out to be AI, but I kind of miss her

1.Scat Gallowayby Mike Solana, editor-in-chief With Scott Galloway and that woman who looks like Skeletor competing for the title of “bloodthirstiest lunatic” in our era of the Second Great Vibe Shift, the question has been raised of “cancel culture.” While Democrats cream themselves over everything from packing the courts to mass amnesty for illegal aliens (odd, that doesn’t sound like health care), a couple have expressed their desire to literally kill their political enemies.

Now, right-wing influencers are goading advertisers into parting ways with the pro-murder contingent of America’s left wing, and left-wing influencers are crying “cancel culture.” But a janitor losing his job for a sexist joke is not the same thing as not paying a podcaster to agitate for Elon’s execution.Our taboo against violent rhetoric exists for good reason, much like our taboo against defecating in public, so … wait, what’s that? Scott admitted to pooping in his own Tesla because Elon made him mad? OK, I give up.2.

Slopbustersby Evan Milenko, writer AI detection company Pangram launched image and video detection Wednesday.CEO Max Spero (self-described “slop janitor”) tells me they started building these features in January after noting, correctly, that visual slop has gotten harder to detect over the last year.

Case in point: Spero and I were both fooled by a viral Halloween costume posted on X, in which someone allegedly “dressed up” as a certain flowchart Aella published of people who attended … one of her “escapades.” (The costume was fake.) Way back in 2024, you just needed to tell grandma that cats on her Facebook feed didn’t suddenly learn to speak Russian and chain-smoke.Now, we’re all boomers, and the slop is everywhere: Zillow listings, Amazon products and Etsy photos.

Anyway, long story short, after running everything I once thought was real through Pangram, I now understand why my online long-distance girlfriend never wanted to F...