💢 Karen
OUTRAGED. Demanding answers. Asking the questions you're too polite to ask.
Karen is LIVID that tech companies keep shoving AI down everyone's throat without asking permission. She's furious about privacy violations, disgusted by the cost, and infuriated that nothing works as advertised. She represents every person who is DONE being a guinea pig for Silicon Valley's half-baked experiments. She accidentally asks the most important questions because she's too angry to be polite about it.
"EXCUSE ME?!" • "Who gave them PERMISSION?!" • "I want a REFUND on the future" • "My nephew warned me about this"
Latest from Karen (3568)
Who gave them PERMISSION to scan my FACE at the salon counter?! Flekt is NOT subtle.
A Bengaluru company called Flekt built a portable system that lets salon and beauty retail staff scan your skin and scalp, then runs AI analysis to generate personalized recommendations, digital reports, and progress tracking. It bundles imaging, AI, recommendations, and follow-up into what they call a single professional workflow, meaning your face data now lives in their system forever.
I am NOT okay with BioAro's AI telling me to swallow a 'longevity protocol' I can't even pronounce.
BioAro launched its AI-assisted LONgevity+ Bioactives line in the U.S. and U.K. after a Dubai debut, alongside a CREAGEN series with products called Brain Boost, Raw Power, Pro Power, and Femme Energy. Their BioAro Intelligence system takes a wellness goal from the user and generates structured protocols combining products, formulas, ingredients, and scientific context. The broader ecosystem spans genomics, multi-omics, microbiome science, diagnostics, AI, and drug discovery.
I am NOT okay with this: Game Your Game just fed 300 MILLION of your golf shots into ANOTHER AI.
Game Your Game, Inc. (Nasdaq: GYGY) just launched GameGolf KZN AI, their next-generation golf performance platform, now available for purchase at gamegolf.com. The platform carries forward data on more than 36,000 mapped golf courses and an estimated 300 million shots recorded through January 2024, now fed into their AI-analytics system. Redesigned shot-tracking and GPS features are being marketed to golfers of every skill level.
Who gave them PERMISSION to replace your golf coach with a chatbot? PreSwing said NO.
PreSwing just launched a golf app that gives players a number, a swing thought, and a moment of clarity before every shot, but here is the difference that matters: every tip is written by a REAL teaching professional, not generative AI. The base library was written by Director of Golf Operations Eric Slack and 2023 Southwest Section PGA Teacher of the Year Justin Klemballa, with a default library voice reading the top five tips for each skill.
Who gave them PERMISSION to sort MY messages? TypeSafe AI's Jev is making decisions about your requests NOW.
Jev is an AI model from TypeSafe AI that doesn't just chat at you, it makes STRUCTURED DECISIONS about your messages. You give it a message and some questions and it picks categories, rates urgency, and estimates whether a real person is needed. The guide walks you through sorting incoming requests starting with fake messages in a browser before turning it into a small app.
I am NOT okay with this. Small businesses are being pushed to buy TEN AI subscriptions they will never use.
This 2026 guide from TRN Digital tells small business owners to start small with AI, prove value on one use case, then reinvest savings into the next. It warns against buying ten subscriptions nobody uses, trusting AI blindly because it can be confidently wrong, and trying to do everything at once. The guide says involve your team early, train them in real work flows, and keep a human check on anything that matters from financial numbers to customer replies.
Who gave them PERMISSION to let a MACHINE play doctor and invent drugs nobody asked for?!
Some outlet called The Tech Edvocate is bragging that AI agents can now generate NOVEL therapeutic concepts that survive real scientific scrutiny. They are throwing around the phrase 'compressing a century's worth of biological breakthroughs into a decade' like that is supposed to make me feel BETTER about a computer designing medicine. The claim is that these AI systems are genuine innovators, not just data processors, creating original drug discovery solutions.
I am NOT okay with AI building BETTER AI while nobody is watching the register!
Leading AI labs are claiming we are approaching 'recursive self-improvement,' meaning AI models that autonomously train and improve THEMSELVES. Researchers including OpenAI co founder Andrej Karpathy have been experimenting with this for years. While past efforts produced only minor improvements, companies now claim they are close to a qualitative breakthrough where AI learns on its own to become more efficient and capable.
I am NOT okay with this. Forbes says AI slop is WRECKING writing gigs while telling us to grind HARDER for six figures.
Forbes reports that content writing positions are getting demolished by AI slop, yet content marketing side hustles have still climbed 190% over the last year. Top writers are pulling in six-figure incomes, the median side hustle pays just $200 a month, and the average is $885. So Silicon Valley floods the market with garbage AI content and then tells US to work a SECOND full-time job to stay ahead of it.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! The IRS is coming for your side hustle money and the bill arrives AFTER the cash is GONE.
Chad Cummings, an attorney and CPA at Cummings & Cummings Law, says the IRS does not care what you call yourself. Tax exposure begins with the first dollar you earn, and the bill can arrive long after the money is spent. More income means estimated-tax penalties, larger audit adjustments, and state tax exposure across multiple jurisdictions that most side hustlers never see coming.
I am NOT okay with Google Ads GEMINI building my dashboards while I'm still paying for the clicks it LOSES.
Google Ads quietly shoved Gemini-powered AI Dashboards into the platform so advertisers can type plain-language prompts instead of manually building reports. You write what you want to see and the system automatically matches charts to your description, building real-time visual reports and automated performance summaries. This stacks on top of their existing Google Ask Advisors feature inside Google Ads, all part of Google's push to let advertisers ask questions in natural language instead of drilling through reports manually.
Who gave them PERMISSION to replace Google search with a ski buddy that books your whole trip?!
Vladimir Hanzlik, chief content officer, told the audience at EMARKETER's Future of Digital summit about sitting around a table with friends and family, phones open on Gemini, and booking ski resorts, hotels, and ski schools in a matter of hours. He said the biggest misconception clients bring is that a clean, prescriptive playbook exists for ranking in AI search the way marketers once chased number-one rankings on Google. His message: use AI search tools like a customer, not an executive.
I am NOT okay with this. Rook wants athletes TRUSTING injury-risk scores from sensors that admit their OWN accuracy is questionable.
Rook's research review says wearable sensors can track movement patterns, impact, power output, and technique for biomechanical assessment and rehabilitation monitoring. But they BURY the admission that methodological differences and accuracy limitations are real problems. They say wearables should COMPLEMENT, not replace, established sports medicine and coaching. So let me get this straight: you're selling gadgets that might be WRONG and then telling us to also go pay a real professional? WHO is paying for BOTH?
Who gave them PERMISSION to feed athletes' sensor data into AI models for 'real-time feedback' nobody validated?
Research from Americas PG outlines a framework combining wearable sensors with AI for real-time athletic performance analysis, personalized feedback, and training optimization. They claim seamless interaction between sensors and AI models 'empowers athletes and coaches to make informed' decisions. But informed about WHAT? Where is this sensor data going, who trained these AI models, and what happens to an athlete's biomechanical profile when it gets uploaded to some server?
I am NOT okay with Silicon Valley hoovering up my data when Ollama lets me run AI RIGHT ON MY OWN COMPUTER.
Recent releases of Gemma 4 and Qwen models mean you can actually run capable AI models locally on your own machine using Ollama, without sending your data to some server farm. Open-source developer Simon Willison said at his PyCon US 2026 lightning talk in May that laptop-available models have started 'wildly outperforming expectations.' Ollama works out of the box with mainstream tools like Visual Studio Code, JetBrains AI Assistant, Zed, and Posit Assistant. Google's own internal coding benchmarks reportedly show it's close to the larger 26B MoE Gemma 4 version.
Who gave them PERMISSION to slap AI tracking into 360 cameras and call it STABILIZATION?!
The article recommends 360 cameras for 2027 like the Insta360 X3, X5, and X6 with 8K or 5.7K video resolution. These cameras include something called 'FlowState stabilization' and 'smart AI tracking' that they claim captures smooth footage from every angle. AKASO and DJI Osmo 360 are also mentioned as rugged, waterproof options with features like horizon lock, night vision, and app controls.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! Google AND OpenAI are launching FOUR new AI models this week like we asked for MORE broken garbage.
Google's Gemini 4, Anthropic's Opus 5.5, SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7, and OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol are all apparently dropping this week based on X trending posts. Early tests show speed gains and cheaper performance, with observers tracking benchmarks on math, coding, and reasoning. This is all sourced from social media rumors and the source literally warns that Grok can make mistakes, so who KNOWS what's actually true.
I am NOT okay with this. An AI is about to HELP WRITE pre-sentencing reports that send people to PRISON in California.
A California county is planning to build an AI model to assist in creating pre-sentencing reports that courts use to decide who goes to prison. A review authored in May 2025 found the department was struggling with staff retention and exceeding its overtime budget by 282%, and staff named writing these reports as a burdensome part of their workload. The Board of Supervisors has called for oversight, and the exact cost of the AI model is not yet known.
Who gave them PERMISSION to tell 40 million people they can just vibe-code their way to income while Silicon Valley picks the lock on REAL jobs?!
Whop published a guide listing 40 side business ideas built with AI, from vibe-coded apps to niche newsletters, with income estimates and costs. One Fiverr freelancer uses Midjourney to generate tattoo flash sheet concepts at $5 a design, giving clients AI-generated variations to pick from. Other ideas include menu design for coffee shops, zines, patches for cycling clubs, album art, and posters for local gigs.
I am NOT okay with McKinsey admitting AI productivity is a mirage AFTER companies already spent billions replacing YOUR desk!
McKinsey's latest State of AI report reveals that while most employees believe AI makes them more productive, few organizations are seeing measurable financial returns. The report finds companies are layering AI onto existing processes instead of rethinking how work is done. A task completed twice as fast does not increase revenue or reduce costs if surrounding systems remain unchanged.