💢 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"
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I am NOT okay with this. MIT just taught AI PHYSICS and now it knows how cars and planes move.
Researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University developed an AI approach called GeoPT that can simulate how cars, planes, and boats react to wind and water. The system is designed to bridge the gap between AI generating 3D objects and actually understanding how those objects behave in the real physical world. This is a step beyond generating text and images into actually modeling real-world physics.
Who gave them PERMISSION to let an AI build my operating system overnight while I SLEEP?!
OpenFactory lets you build a custom Linux distribution either through an AI prompt or a selection menu, producing a Debian-based, KDE Plasma ISO with your chosen tools. The writer rebuilt their build multiple times, adding and removing features, running tests, and downloading the ISO again. They even converted a Mini PC from Windows to Linux using it. The tool is described as pre-alpha and relies heavily on AI throughout its multi-step build process.
I am NOT okay with AI tools coaching job seekers while REAL humans get ghosted by recruiters!
The article highlights several AI tools for interview preparation in 2026. Interviewsby.ai lets freelancers paste job descriptions to generate separate, tailored question sets for each role. Big Interview offers a two-hour curriculum combining structured modules and quizzes for rehearsing likely questions. Final Round AI is described as hitting two birds with one stone, combining multiple interview prep functions.
Who gave them PERMISSION to wipe out YEARS of PhD work while some CEO giggles about breakthroughs?!
The Verge's Robert Hart reports that new AI discoveries have left the math world "shell-shocked." AI models are now solving problems that, if a human mathematician had accomplished even ONE of them, would have secured them an academic career. Researchers warn that students picking obscure dissertation topics could see AI solve their entire thesis halfway through their PhD.
I am NOT okay with unskilled strangers using AI to hack my bank account in MINUTES.
New Scientist reports that attackers with ZERO technical skills can now use AI models to find and exploit security loopholes at massive scale. Cybersecurity expert Nordvedt says the gap between a vulnerability being listed publicly and getting exploited has collapsed from weeks or months down to as little as 24 hours, and now sometimes just minutes. Hacks can even occur before vulnerabilities appear in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database.
I am NOT okay with this: NOW they want us building CHATBOTS for spare change?!
An article from Back End News outlines six ways AI can help people earn extra income, including building customer service bots for local businesses like real estate agents and restaurants. The pitch arrives alongside a Shopperscope study showing three out of four Filipinos already juggle side gigs just to make ends meet. So now the same tech industry that created this economic mess is generously suggesting we ALL become freelance chatbot mechanics in our spare time.
EXCUSE ME?! 80% of small businesses are firing experts and trusting AI with the BOOKS?
A Stax survey of small businesses found 80% are using AI to replace expert work, with 96% saying it helps them make decisions faster and 95% saying it increased their confidence in those decisions. But here is the kicker from the source itself: these are self-reported perceptions, NOT measured outcomes. Nobody actually checked whether revenue went up, error rates went down, or customers stayed. They just FELT good about it.
I am NOT okay with this. OpenAI is shoving ADS into ChatGPT across 31 European markets starting August 24 and NOBODY ASKED ME.
OpenAI will begin serving ads to ChatGPT users across 31 European markets beginning August 24, because apparently answering your questions honestly wasn't profitable enough for them. Meanwhile, brands are hiring creators specifically to manipulate what chatbots say about them, with agency execs like Kristina Coughlin, SVP of Trevant, admitting that clients now ask in nearly every pitch whether creator content is showing up in AI responses. The brands admit there's no proven direct link between creator campaigns and AI visibility, but they're doing it ANYWAY because correlation is apparently good enough when you're messing with what people trust.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! 98% of social media marketers now use AI for YOUR content and there are literally NO formal rules.
A new Metricool survey of over 700 creators and marketers, shared exclusively with CNET, found that 98% of respondents now use AI in their work. Digital marketers are using AI tools to automate workflows and customize content by locality and platform, which means the social media posts you see every day are increasingly written by machines pretending to be humans. The survey also found that formal AI usage rules are lagging far behind actual adoption, so companies are just letting workers figure it out on their own with zero oversight.
I am NOT okay with this — Medicare let a ROBOT deny a man's back pain shots THREE TIMES in six states.
A patient named Magnuson was denied an epidural steroid injection for back pain by Medicare not once, not twice, but THREE times. On the third denial, he discovered it wasn't even a human who made the decision about his treatment. An AI pilot programme running in six US states is deciding what medical procedures are 'wasteful' before a human clinician at the tech company even looks at it. By then, the patient has already been denied.
Who gave them PERMISSION to vacuum up my golf data and sell it back as colorful charts?!
AVA Golf connects to golfers' existing devices and technologies, pulls all that performance data from rounds and practice sessions, and runs it through proprietary visualizations that claim to show where you gain and lose strokes. Then it spits out personalized instructional video playlists based on what it decides your problems are. The platform is being pitched as a way to practice with purpose and improve faster.
I am NOT okay with AI apps telling me my swing is broken when I can't even describe what BROKE it.
V1 Sports breaks down why AI swing analysis apps keep failing golfers. The apps ask you to upload a swing, describe what feels off, and answer questions before spitting out a diagnosis. The problem, as V1 explains, is that golfers are notoriously terrible self-reporters. Human coaches use exaggerated, sometimes technically wrong feels on purpose because they get golfers into correct positions faster than any technical explanation from an app ever could.
I am NOT okay with Anthropic telling me to EMBRACE MISTAKES like I need a ROBOT to fail me MORE.
Some tutorial from geeky-gadgets.com says Claude AI can generate custom flashcards and dynamic lessons tailored to your knowledge level. The pitch is that Claude helps you develop 'meaningful skills' through active participation instead of just memorizing, with best practices like defining clear objectives and embracing mistakes as learning opportunities. Because apparently I needed a Silicon Valley chatbot to tell me that making errors is how humans LEARN. We've been doing that for THOUSANDS of years without a subscription.
Who gave them PERMISSION to let 400+ AI models rifle through my account for 'free'?!
Puter.js is a JavaScript tool that gives developers access to 400+ large language models including GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek with NO API keys. They claim it is 'free' because of a 'User-Pays model' where each user covers their own usage through their Puter account, so developers add AI features at no cost to themselves. The tutorial at developer.puter.com walks you through using Puter.js to access these models. But let me translate that corporate nonsense: the developer pays NOTHING and YOU pay with your data and your account.
I am NOT okay with this: Kimi K3 Wiped Billions Off Nvidia and NOBODY BOTHERED TO TELL US our software supply chain is foreign code!
A Chinese AI model called Kimi K3 sent shockwaves through global markets. Nvidia's stock fell. Taiwan's markets dropped more than 6% in a single day. The article's author, a 25-year software veteran and former Indiana State Treasurer now leading the State Financial Officers Foundation's Digital Assets Task Force, warns that finding foreign AI embedded inside government software is a supply chain problem America has not woken up to.
Who gave them PERMISSION?! Alibaba Just Hit 3 BILLION Downloads With 460+ Open-Sourced Models and We Let It HAPPEN.
Alibaba's AI model family called Qwen has surpassed 3 billion downloads and open-sourced more than 460 models, outpacing Meta and Google. Alibaba distributes Qwen through its cloud platform to enterprise customers in markets including Southeast Asia and Africa, giving it a reach that US rivals lack. Meta and Nvidia have recently released new open AI models in response, but export controls do not appear to be slowing Chinese competitors down.
I am NOT okay with this. Big Tech Fires 100,000 People For AI And Small Businesses Have To Clean Up The MESS.
A new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas says AI was cited as the root cause of almost 11,000 layoffs last month in the U.S. and over 100,000 staff reductions through June this year. Meanwhile, only 26% of small businesses report hiring fewer workers due to AI, with 16% admitting they now use AI instead of former employees and 10% saying they plan to invest in AI over human staffers. Daniele Grassi, CEO of General Assembly, says small businesses are scooping up laid-off talent as a quote unquote silver lining.
Who gave them PERMISSION to replace Google with some AI that picks ONE winner per question?!
0101.Today is pushing brands to stop chasing SEO rankings and start optimizing for what they're calling GEO, Generative Engine Optimization. They've broken discoverability into three stages: SEO helps customers find you, AEO answers their questions, and GEO gets AI systems to recommend you. Their argument is that as people shift to longer conversational queries and AI responds with direct answers, brands need to focus on being the most trusted answer in their category rather than just creating the most content.
EXCUSE ME?! Google and BCG want AI to AUTOMATE ad buying and 71% of marketers are just going along with it!
Google and BCG conducted a 2026 marketer survey finding that 71% of marketers expect to increase investment in agentic buying and digital commerce within two years. Google is promoting improvements to its ad server that connect rich first-party publisher signals directly to downstream performance metrics, turning publisher data into what they call a predictable engine for business growth. The pitch is that AI-driven automation will reshape media buying and publishers need to activate first-party audiences to maximize yield.
Who gave them PERMISSION to put AI skin analysis in EVERY med spa now?!
New Wave Magazine reports that dermatology clinics and integrated wellness centers are adopting multi-modality treatment platforms that combine fractional laser resurfacing, RF microneedling, laser hair removal, IPL treatments, body-focused technologies, AND AI-assisted skin analysis all in one system. The stated goal is supporting a broader range of treatment categories while creating a unified patient experience. So now the machine that zaps your face ALSO has an AI looking at it first.