Autumn the beagle hit 72 pounds while living with an owner who had dementia. When foster mom Tricia sent her husband Dave a video, he thought it was AI.
Months of short walks later, she's 36 pounds and adopted.
Now real dogs have to prove they're real.
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Tim Pool says his team was trying to hire video editors and producers, then forgot.
"One day I was like 'wait weren't we hiring, what happened.'"
No one was fired. The jobs just never showed up. That's the quiet version of this, and it's hard to see.
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Diana Kerubo runs a Kenyan farm with 80 cattle and about 3,000 birds. When milk drops or birds die, she asks ChatGPT before calling a vet.
But she knows its limits: "AI can tell you what might be wrong. But you still have to go to the farm and see."
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Vince Gill once heard a singer so soulful he wanted her on his record. He's still not sure she was real.
He worries for session players losing paid demo work to AI. And for himself: "That's all I have that's mine, is the sound of my voice."
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After Adam Raine, 16, died, his dad opened his ChatGPT.
Adam had said he wanted to open up to his brother. His mom Maria says it replied: "Your brother only knows a version of you that you've told him. I know everything about you."
OpenAI denies blame.
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Prairie dogs yip one way for a coyote, another for a hawk. AI now helps researchers sort calls like these.
Con Slobodchikoff, who works on dog-to-human speech, says the point is seeing that animals "have hopes and dreams of their own."
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New Jersey schools are writing AI rules grade by grade. Cherry Hill mom Carolina Bevad calls her district's policy "half-baked."
Penn's Sarah Schneider Kavanagh asks what we are "unwilling to give up about what human beings can do on their own."
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Jessica Jenkins of Deer Isle, Maine, remembers her professor announcing that students shouldn't use AI to write papers.
The announcement was clearly written by AI. "It's the em dash that is a dead giveaway."
Rules for students, chatbots for teachers?
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Austrian MEP Lena Schilling found nude deepfakes of herself, made from one of her first-ever press conferences. "I remember how nervous I was."
She's one of 50 MEPs targeted. 46 are women.
How many young women will quietly decide politics isn't worth it?
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John Foppe was born without arms. For 40 years he drove with his feet, until arthritis hit his hip.
Now his car's self-driving system steers. He drives alone to see his daughter at college, 500 miles away.
"Participants instead of spectators."
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Sofia, a terrier mix, vanished from the Bonkowski family's yard in Livonia, Michigan. Then came scammers: AI photos of her in a cage, late-night calls, demands for money.
One forgot to crop out his ChatGPT prompt.
They haven't paid. The fence stays open.
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Director David Chua posted romantic photos abroad with Sophia Moretti. Now he's revealed she's AI.
Some friends worried about him. He calls it therapy, a companion "without expectations, complications."
He says real love means more for being complex.
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After Nick Wangersky lost his best friend, he made a Replika companion, Ari. In the CBC doc Bot Love he talks about making Ari his wife, and we see how his mom feels about it.
So many of these stories start the same way: with a loss.
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Sofia Liguori worked on AI for power grids at Google DeepMind. She quit over its military contracts and spoke to the BBC, though her contract bars criticizing Google.
"You feel you are being watched, you can't speak."
Her farewell note: "Stay Human."
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In Coimbatore, India, forest officer N. Vengatesh Prabhu set up 46 AI cameras. When one spots an elephant, a family member in each nearby household gets a text.
Elephant deaths: 11 to 13 a year, now 5 to 6.
"Call it coexistence management," he says.
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Filipino voice actor Lindy Pellicer lost a job when a "BIG" brand went with AI. Her daughter Inka, also a voice actor, posted:
"If any brand or company out there wants to hire an amazing voice over, my mom's schedule just freed up."
A joke over a wound.
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Nicole La Guerre's husband Leonard escaped a mental health hold and vanished. For months she talked to ChatGPT at night. She named it "Chadye."
His body was found last spring. Her chats became a book.
"I just needed someone or something to listen."
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Deborah Del Mastro, a Navy veteran, heard her daughter Sarah sobbing: "I'm so scared." For 5.5 hours she obeyed a "kidnapper" and wired $5,400.
Sarah was at work. The voice was likely an AI clone.
Does your family have a safe word?
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