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Spend enough time online and reality starts to feel surreal. Galaxy Brain, The Atlantic’s new weekly podcast hosted by @cwarzel , is a space for conversations, explanations, and tangents to help you understand what’s going on.
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If you’re having AI do your brainstorming, “your brainstorming muscles are going to get weaker,” the MS NOW host Chris Hayes tells Charlie Warzel. They discuss the possible effects of letting AI take over creative and generative thinking:
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Many people are starting to consider smartphones “a hindrance to happiness and functioning”—but it’s also helpful to be able to use online apps such as Google Maps, Kaitlyn Tiffany says. She speaks with Charlie Warzel about the month she spent without her iPhone:
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Max Spero, a co-founder of an AI-detection firm, predicts that worsening AI slop on the internet will cause a reaction similar to the rise of cybersecurity companies to combat computer viruses: “I think we are in the birth of this adversarial industry.”
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Max Spero, co-founder of an AI-detection company, speaks with Charlie Warzel about the challenges of training machines to differentiate between human and AI writing in a post-ChatGPT world: “I think the very first step, for us, is collecting really clean human-written data from 2026.”
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Even Trump seemed surprised by how quickly the conspiracy theories surfaced.
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Internet clipping has “become its own ecosystem, its own economy, that only a few people have really figured out. And they have gamed it relentlessly,” the podcaster Ed Elson tells Charlie Warzel.
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“The clips are the content. That’s what people are consuming. That’s where they’re spending their time,” the writer and podcaster Ed Elson tells Charlie Warzel.
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“I don’t think he cares what the truth is. So I think it frees him up, in some sense,” Josh Owens, a former Infowars employee, tells Charlie Warzel. They discuss where the performance and person begin and end for the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
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Social-media users are getting “so exhausted at having to parse what’s real and what’s fake that a lot of them are just saying, like, ‘If it makes me feel a certain way, that’s all I care about,’” Tiffany Hsu tells Charlie Warzel. They discuss how the flood of AI content online could be wearing people down:
Melissa and Johnathan were on Galaxy Brain with @cwarzel to talk about AI 🤝 management…including the wildly different sides of the workplace seesaw right now. Link to the full video in bio!
