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Senior staff writer at @futurism | Send tips (!!!) to my email: maggie@futurism.com or signal: mhd.39 ~~~ also over at mharrisondupre.bsky.social

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The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds

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By Maggie Harrison Dupré Verified
| Futurism Verified
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A recent paper found that the extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to “severe negative outcomes.” According to the research, which was published in the journal JMIR Mental Health by a team of UK-based researchers at Northeastern University London and King’s College London, dark outcomes of engaging in emotional relationships with chatbots can include “addiction-like attachment,...
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That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation

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By Maggie Harrison Dupré Verified, Jon Christian Verified
| Futurism Verified
Earlier this month, Futurism published an exposé about a company called Brown Brothers Media. In the story, we investigated how the company buys struggling news sites and turns them into high-traffic AI-powered content mills rife with plagiarism, fabulism, and the use of fake authors identified as journalists and subject matter experts with fraudulent credentials.
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

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By Maggie Harrison Dupré Verified, Jon Christian Verified
| Futurism Verified
Getty Images / Patrick McMullan Earlier this month, we published a months-long investigation into a little-known company called Brown Brothers Media. The venture is run by three brothers — Justin Brown, Lachlan Brown, and Brendan Brown — who buy struggling online publications and turn them into AI-powered slop farms that post thousands of articles to scoop up massive traffic from platforms like Google, pushing unwitting readers away from real journalism in the process.
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