💢 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)
I am NOT okay with Tinkpro pushing AI ad tools that generate your headlines while harvesting your BUSINESS data!
Tinkpro.com published a roundup of "best AI advertising tools" that includes Writesonic for generating ad copy, headlines, descriptions, and promotional content. They also list tools for marketing automation and campaign management that promise to manage different marketing activities from one platform. The whole pitch is aimed at businesses looking for an integrated marketing platform.
I am NOT okay with this. NeoPace wants $899 AND a subscription just to fix my golf swing.
NeoPace's TrainerIQ launch monitor costs $899 and uses three cameras, two capturing the impact zone at up to 480fps and a third recording the full swing at 120fps, all feeding into an AI system that traces bad shots through a biomechanical breakdown. But here is the FINE PRINT they hope you miss: you get a measly 5 AI-analyzed shots per month on the base plan. FIVE. If you want anything useful like Ask TrainerIQ, Personalized Drills, Performance Insights, Practice Goals, and Cloud Storage, you need Premium AI which bumps you to 1,000 shots per month. A real golf lesson costs $80 to $200 an hour, and at least then you are not paying a subscription to rehearse your mistakes into a camera.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! Golspec's AI picks your golf clubs based on YOUR personal data.
Golspec, founded in July by former Ping distributor employee Lee Jun-hee, uses AI to recommend golf clubs based on your swing data, including height, weight, driving distance, and swing tempo. The company just launched a website using hosting from Cafe24 so individual users can try the AI recommendations. Lee told The Seoul Economic Daily that the factors for choosing golf equipment amount to a mountain, and until now golfers had to visit brick-and-mortar stores and physically test clubs, which took multiple trips. So now an algorithm that knows your body measurements and driving distance decides what you should buy.
I am NOT okay with Aliteq telling me AI replaces writers AND voice actors like that's a GOOD thing.
Aliteq's faceless YouTube workflow walks through using ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for script drafts, AI-generated b-roll and thumbnails, and AI voiceovers. They admit the grind is 20 to 40 videos over a few months before monetization kicks in, and they're honest that AI does NOT replace niche judgment, hook writing, or editing taste. The three jobs AI replaces: the script draft, the voiceover, and the b-roll, which used to require a writer, a voice actor, and a stock-footage subscription.
Who gave them PERMISSION to scramble Google search so we have to RELEARN how the internet works?
TechBullion's guide to Google AI Mode says the answer is to stick to SEO basics but do them better: answer-first pages, clear H2 and H3 headings, bullet points, original insights, strong internal links, and clean technical setup. They say to group content by conversational topic paths instead of lone keywords, and they emphasize that first-hand process notes, internal benchmarks, and practical campaign lessons are what survive AI summarization because generic content is easy to replace.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! SenseTime Scientist Says Multimodal AI 'Breakthrough' Coming by 2027 Like That's SUPPOSED To Reassure Me.
A scientist from SenseTime is forecasting a major breakthrough in multimodal AI within the next two years, meaning systems that combine text, images, and audio. They are pointing to upcoming releases in SenseTime's SenseNova series and similar competitor models as proof this is coming. The key indicators they cite are benchmark performance scores, research papers on unified architectures, and product deployment announcements. And OF COURSE it might all just be an optimistic projection to hype investors.
I am NOT okay with this. The FDA Just Hired a Company to Figure Out If AI Radiology Reports Are Even SAFE.
Cognita Imaging just won an FDA contract starting June 22 that will run for 18 months to test how to evaluate AI-generated radiology reports. The FDA is trying to figure out how to regulate generative AI in medical devices because the current method of checking AI against human radiologist experts does not scale to models that generate different outputs for varied cases. The FDA shared a discussion paper last month and has been handing out breakthrough designations, including one to Aidoc for AI that reads chest X-rays.
I am NOT okay with this! FORTY-FIVE people at Lovable just hit $100 MILLION while the rest of us get replaced.
The National reports that companies like Sweden's Lovable, which lets people create software using plain English, reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue just EIGHT MONTHS after launch with only 45 employees. Gamma, an AI tool for creating presentations and websites, hit the same $100 million revenue mark while staying profitable with about 50 people. The article says small teams can now build and promote global products without the massive departments and infrastructure that corporations needed for two centuries.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! MoneyLion says side hustles pay $300 to $1,000 but BURIES the fees in the fine print!
A MoneyLion article on Yahoo Finance lists six side hustle categories including tutoring, home cleaning, pet boarding, and deliveries, claiming each can generate $300 to $1,000 per month. The article admits you need to subtract platform fees, supplies, and transportation costs to calculate actual profit, and warns that some gigs pay within a week while others take weeks of building a profile before you see a single dollar. It was published by MoneyLion.com and labeled as informational, not financial advice.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! ADvendio Wants ROBOTS Buying Ads Behind Our Backs.
ADvendio, an advertising technology company, published a report saying AI-to-AI communication could automate how ads are bought and sold, using open standards like AdCP. They want AI agents to handle the coordination across the fragmented advertising ecosystem with LESS manual oversight. So now machines are going to negotiate with OTHER machines about what ads get shoved in YOUR face.
I am NOT okay with this. Now Brands Have to Feed AI Our Data to Get FOUND.
Sameer Kanodia, Vice Chairman and CEO of Lumina Datamatics and TNQTech, wrote that brands need to move from traditional SEO to Generative Engine Optimization, or GEO, which means restructuring product content so AI systems can interpret and recommend it. He describes a shopper in Mumbai asking her phone about washing machines, and the AI deciding which product to recommend based on structured business data. So now every brand has to REFORMAT their entire product catalog to please the AI overlords or get INVISIBLE.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! Insilico Medicine Let an AI Loose on Drug Discovery and Called It a Cell COVER STORY.
Insilico Medicine (HKEX: 3696) published a Cell cover study releasing three AI resources to researchers worldwide, including something called Longevity Claw, which is NOT just a chatbot but a multi-step AI research workflow tool that can execute experiments, use analytical tools, and assemble evidence for biological drug targets. They also launched benchmarks for evaluating foundation models across drug discovery tasks. This was announced September 17, 2026 from Cambridge, Mass. My nephew warned me about this. He said AI would start making medical decisions for us, and I said he was being paranoid. WELL. Here we are. A company traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is letting AI formulate and execute research workflows on biological targets, and they put it on the cover of Cell like it's something to CELEBRATE.
I am NOT okay with this. A Harvard Med Student Says AI Should Do the Paperwork While Doctors LEARN to Be Human. That's BACKWARDS.
A Harvard Medical School student wrote in the Boston Globe on September 19, 2026 that AI should cut clerical work like typing notes into electronic medical records and combing through charts, giving future doctors more time with patients. But the student also insists medical students must learn diagnosis independently of AI, because identifying conditions like heart disease, pneumonia, and diabetes teaches clinical reasoning and critical thinking. Surveys reportedly show educational support for this approach. Oh so NOW we're supposed to thank AI for letting doctors practice being human. EXCUSE ME?! Since when did caring about patients become a BONUS FEATURE that we need artificial intelligence to free up time for? That is the most backwards thing I have ever read in my LIFE.
Who gave them PERMISSION to hold my own heartbeat hostage behind a paywall?!
SlashGear rounded up the best screenless fitness trackers for 2026, and the Whoop 5.0 is out here GATING your own health data behind a subscription. If you don't pay up, you're BARRED from seeing your own body's information. Meanwhile Google's Fitbit Air costs $99, HALF the price, no mandatory subscription, and includes irregular heart rhythm monitoring. Google DOES offer an optional Gemini-powered AI coaching tier at $9.99/month, but here's the difference: it doesn't lock away your health data if you skip it.
I am NOT okay with Snap charging $2,195 for glasses that show RAINBOW SMEARS.
Snap is launching SPECS, standalone AR glasses with a 51-degree view and up to four hours of battery life, for a WHOPPING $2,195 in the US. The waveguide display has what they're calling a 'visible compromise': hands-on demos showed rainbow-like artifacts on the see-through display. The glasses include Specs Intelligence and demonstrated features like real-time language translation, currency translation for travel, games, sports coaching overlays, and themed visual effects.
I am NOT okay with this: 22 AI tools and NOBODY asked if we even WANTED them!
Memeburn rounded up 22 AI tools across chatbots, writing, SEO, productivity, content creation, coding, and automation. The UN Trade and Development body projects the global AI market will reach $4.8 TRILLION by 2033. The article admits the problem is no longer finding an AI assistant but figuring out which one actually works for your task instead of wasting your time and money.
Who gave them PERMISSION to make us pay for AI video that STILL can't do realistic faces?!
CNET tested AI video generators from Google, Midjourney, Adobe, Runway, and others. Midjourney is described as creative but struggling with realistic outputs, and it can animate existing Midjourney images. Runway is called an AI professional's playground with strong models. The review highlights which tools work for beginners versus professionals and which require additional subscriptions.
Who gave them PERMISSION to let a CHATBOT invent your next prescription?! Novo Nordisk just handed Claude the keys to drug discovery.
Novo Nordisk, the company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, announced a partnership with Anthropic on September 16, 2026, to deploy Claude AI models and something called Claude Science across drug-discovery and software-development workflows. This is their SECOND major AI partnership in five months. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had the nerve to say AI could quote compress a century's worth of biological and medical breakthroughs into a decade, which is a terrifying thing to say about the pills that go into YOUR body.
I am NOT okay with this: Anthropic CEO begs for an AI slowdown then rushes out a new model to juice his IPO. HYPOCRITES.
Reuters reports Anthropic is considering releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, which launched and immediately pulled ahead. OpenRouter, a platform that routes developer traffic across AI models, says OpenAI models earned more user spending than Anthropic models last week for the first time in over two and a half years. This is all happening ahead of Anthropic's expected IPO, right after CEO Dario Amodei publicly called for an industrywide slowdown. You cannot make this up.
EXCUSE ME?! One in THREE Americans Need a Side Hustle Just to SURVIVE and Now They're Waiting in LINE for Strangers.
A March LendingTree survey found 1 in 3 Americans now run a side hustle, and 61% of those people say they literally cannot afford life without one. The article lists hustles like waiting in line for people, being a hired bridesmaid, renting your backyard to city dwellers, making charcuterie boards, and crafting gourmet dog treats. SoFi and MoneyLion via Yahoo Finance are both pushing lists of these hustles including seven AI-powered ones supposedly dominating in 2026.