Meta’s New Chatbots Are an Abomination

The Weekend Leverage, August 10th

Aug 17, 2025

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I keep wondering what entertainment will look like in the future. Will cultural network effects—people talking about what shows are good with their friends—overpower the individual storytelling of AI? Will I text my humans or my AIs more? This week we finally got some data to help answer that question.

Today:

Meta’s sexbots target kids
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