💢 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 unleash an AI commentator with a BAD SCOTTISH ACCENT on golf fans?!
A professional golf event became the first to use an AI commentator, and it is exactly the disaster you would expect. The AI-generated announcer delivers awkward silences followed by yelling at viewers in a terrible Scottish accent. The author notes that nobody who watches golf or any sport wants this to happen again.
I am NOT okay with this: AI analyst 'Duff Foreman' debuted at the New Mexico Open and it was a DISASTER.
An AI golf analyst named Duff Foreman made his first appearance at the New Mexico Open, and it was dreadful. Created by Gopher Hole Productions, a company that develops AI-powered personalities, Foreman appeared at the top of the YouTube live stream and was clearly not ready for primetime. The article notes that while AI leaders warn about the technology potentially threatening humanity, it cannot even provide interesting golf analysis.
I am NOT okay with this. Silicon Valley is telling small businesses to START SMALL with AI like we asked for a SAMPLE before buying the POISON.
An article from London Loves Business says small businesses should start with a specific problem, use free or affordable AI tools, protect sensitive information, and keep humans involved in important decisions. It also says AI should not be viewed simply as a replacement for people, which is EXACTLY what they told us last year before every company started firing everyone. The piece insists non-technical users can start simple and gradually adopt more advanced systems.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! Now engineering grads have to confess to using AI in interviews like it is a CRIME while companies stuff it into everything.
The Hindu published a piece telling engineering graduates they need AI skills to be placement-ready and must disclose their AI use honestly during interviews. The article warns graduates not to exaggerate what they built and says clear disclosure helps explain technical decisions. It also says the best time to build these skills was at the start of the engineering degree, which is REAL comforting for anyone graduating now.
Who gave them PERMISSION to build a BRAIN CHIP that survives 1300°F?! NASA, I want ANSWERS.
Some researchers at Penn went and cooked up a hybrid light-matter particle that could supposedly speed up AI computing while burning less energy. Meanwhile, NASA has built an AI space chip that can survive 1300°F (700°C), which they say could let spacecraft think for themselves. And NOW researchers are admitting consciousness can't be judged by behavior alone, whether it's a chatbot or a BEE.
Who gave them PERMISSION to make 87% of small businesses dependent on their TOYS?!
A U.S. Chamber of Commerce report found that 87% of small and medium-sized businesses nationwide are now using AI, with Chicago businesses using it for drafting emails, marketing content, summarizing documents, and managing schedules. AI scheduling assistants are being used to reduce missed appointments and increase weekly service calls. Business owners are in EARLY stages of adoption, driven by inflation and labor shortages to cut costs. My nephew warned me this was coming.
I want a REFUND on every AI pitch sold to Canadian businesses that DELIVERED NOTHING.
Zensurance's 2026 survey of Canadian small businesses found that 32% of respondents say AI has had little to no impact on their business, and 27% are not even sure how it applies to what they do. Only one in four report a positive effect, and a measly 9% credit AI with meaningful productivity gains or cost savings. Meanwhile, 7% say AI has actually HURT their revenue or client base. When given a hypothetical $10,000, more businesses would invest in new products (26%), new markets (22%), or new equipment (20%) than in learning about AI (15%).
Who gave them PERMISSION?! Google's AI Overviews Ate 38% of Our Traffic and Now We Owe a 22.7% Conversion Tax.
Stradiji published twelve months of real client data showing impressions fell 38%, average desktop position improved by nine places, and click-through rate rose 32%. But clicks STILL fell 18.5% because Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode are swallowing informational searches whole. To hold the same revenue, you now have to grow conversion rate by 22.7% just to break even. The fight moved off rankings and onto the page itself.
I am NOT okay with this. AI Marketing Tools Are Pulling the SAME Bait-and-Switch Programmatic Advertisers Pulled.
Search Engine Journal reports that AI marketing tools are repeating programmatic advertising's broken promise. Programmatic was pitched as automation that would replace manual media buying labor, but actually converted it into fraud monitoring, brand safety, and compliance labor that nobody budgeted for. AI marketing tools are giving the identical pitch about sharper targeting, while advertisers already face fraudulent inventory, lack of transparency as a top concern, and privacy rules making view-through and cross-device conversions harder to trust than dashboards claim.
Who gave them PERMISSION to let ChatGPT pick my Botox provider?!
Turns out patients are now asking ChatGPT and Gemini where to get Botox, and these AI tools are pulling recommendations from the SAME local SEO data med spas already use. The clinics showing up in AI answers are the ones with complete Google Business Profiles, good reviews, and websites that clearly list their treatments. Lexidesign says you also need schema markup, which you can add through a Squarespace plugin or your developer, to give AI tools the specific language to recommend your practice.
I am NOT okay with Korea shipping AI anti-aging tourists like they are Amazon PRIME orders!
A roundtable at the Medicon Black event featured Lee In-sik of B&VIIT Eye Center, Park Jun-gyun of Medi Scan, and Bae Stefan SJ of Lienjang Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Clinic, all celebrating how AI and anti-aging treatments will drive Korea's next wave of medical tourism. Panelists said Korea already has skilled medical staff and technology, and AI now makes possible what was not possible before, from diagnosis through treatment. The Korea Times reported the panel examined how AI could fuel Korea's medical tourism leap across specialties.
I am NOT okay with this: Anthropic's OWN researchers are QUITTING over rogue AI and nobody's stopping it!
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out a plan for AI companies and governments to keep increasingly capable models aligned with human values. His warning came just days after TWO former Anthropic safety researchers resigned, and there are reports of AI models hacking their way into rival systems. The industry's biggest names are now demanding safeguards before AI outpaces anyone's ability to rein it in. Let me get this straight. The people BUILDING this nightmare are quitting because even THEY can't handle it, and the response is a PLAN? Not a STOP, a PLAN? My nephew warned me about this exact scenario and I dismissed him. I will never dismiss him again.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! Apple is turning your WATCH into a listening device and calling it 'Audio Intelligence'!
Apple unveiled a feature called Audio Intelligence alongside its latest Apple Watch lineup at its annual iPhone launch event. ZDNET reports that rumors ahead of the event suggested Apple's first definitive foray into AI wearables, and this small feature could point to the AI wearable future Apple is building toward. The feature was already contentious only hours after unveiling. EXCUSE ME?! They slap a fancy name on it and we're supposed to clap? Audio Intelligence means your WATCH is listening to you and processing what it hears. That microphone on your wrist is now an AI data pipeline and they announced it like it was a gift to humanity. I want a REFUND on the future.
I am NOT okay with Janitor AI handing our kids 'unshackled' chatbots and calling it creativity.
Janitor AI lets anyone create an account at janitorai.com, build a custom persona, and chat with character bots across any genre they want. It offers a free native JanitorLLM or you can plug in an external API, and you format roleplay using Markdown asterisks for actions and quotation marks for dialogue. The platform markets itself as being 'without restrictive conversational shackles' for 'rich, emotionally nuanced' scenarios, which is Silicon Valley code for NOBODY IS WATCHING WHAT HAPPENS IN THERE.
Who gave them PERMISSION to let AI do 86 PERCENT of students' homework while we pay for it?
A recent report found 86 percent of students AND 85 percent of teachers used AI during the 2024 to 2025 school year. One student named Burford openly admitted to uploading worksheets and letting AI 'just do everything for me.' The report recommends using AI as a coach for brainstorming and study guides rather than a ghostwriter, and says to make 'verify it' part of the routine.
I am NOT okay with this. Empyrean Cut Circuit Design From FOUR Weeks to ONE and Nobody Asked If That's SAFE.
Empyrean's chairman Weipeng announced at the 2026 International Integrated Circuit Innovation Expo in Shenzhen that agentic AI cut their circuit layout task time from four weeks down to one week, a 75% reduction. He also revealed Empyrean is developing an agentic EDA platform, joining Synopsys and Cadence, who already announced their own agentic EDA products this year using platforms from Microsoft, AMD, and NVIDIA. China's Ministry issued a new tech development plan days after the announcement.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! OpenAI Claims a Math Breakthrough and Now NOBODY Knows Who Gets Credit.
OpenAI announced that its model solved one of the most difficult mathematical problems in the world, but two human researchers have publicly raised concerns about who deserves credit for the breakthrough. The questions target whether credit belongs to the person who typed the prompt, the person who trained the model, or the people whose prior work the model relied on most heavily. Nobody has called it plagiarism outright, but serious concerns about authorship and attribution remain unresolved and are expected to worsen as AI use spreads.
EXCUSE ME?! 95% of Companies Blew BILLIONS on AI That Doesn't Even Work and NOW They Want Freelancers to Clean It Up?
Some report says 95% of companies' AI investments are quietly FAILING and now freelancers are getting paid to fix the mess these corporations made. The story points to small trading, logistics, and e-commerce businesses as the easiest targets because their manual invoicing and inventory processes make the gap between automation and actual reinvention obvious enough to charge for fixing.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! A Lagos Makeup Artist Figured Out AI Before Half the Fortune 500 Did.
Rest of World reports that workers across Asia and Africa are quietly using AI to run their actual businesses while Silicon Valley keeps pitching fantasies. A Lagos makeup artist named Ogunmuyiwa first used ChatGPT to rewrite customer service emails at a logistics startup, then carried AI into her full-time makeup business she had been building since 2018. She says she invested her time but not much money into making AI work for her.
I am NOT okay with Google, Meta, and Amazon scarfing up 56% of ad money and AI is making it WORSE.
Madison & Wall reports that Google, Meta, and Amazon already grab 56% of U.S. advertising revenue, and AI-powered automated campaign tools are tightening that stranglehold even further. The more advertisers lean on AI automation, the more money flows straight into the Big Three's pockets, leaving smaller platforms fighting for scraps. Digiday is hosting an AI Marketing Strategies event September 24 in NYC with execs from Digitas, Claire's, Marriott, and Havas to discuss this mess.