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Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it

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By Viola Zhou Verified
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Young people can’t seem to stop watching AI slop videos of cats talking and fruits cheating on each other. Older people are enjoying a different kind of AI-generated content, which provides them with much-needed comfort and companionship. Take Uncle Chang, a 67-year-old family friend who recently visited New York from Taiwan. As we chatted, the retired businessman showed me some YouTube videos that made him cry.
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China’s web novel platforms embraced AI. Now they are fighting it

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By Viola Zhou Verified, Christine Glancey Verified
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Gordon Sheng, a 32-year-old civil engineer in China, spent two decades reading web novels before using AI to write his own. He used DeepSeek to outline a dramatic divorce plot, then generated the story in five minutes using an AI writing tool. Published on Tomato Novel, the short story drew over 5,500 reads in 10 days.
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Sensors, head-mounted cameras, recordings: Humans are helping Chinese tech companies train robots

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By Viola Zhou Verified
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This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. Daniel Wang came home to his apartment in Beijing and saw a humanoid robot waiting for him. He opened the door, and the robot got to work. The robot, developed by Shenzhen-based X Square Robot, moved slowly. It spent an hour folding about three pieces of clothing, and another arranging Wang’s shoes. Most of the actual chores were done by a human housekeeper who accompanied it.
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