This week's news: a poet broke the internet, a dictionary ethered Silicon Valley, and Microsoft accidentally admitted they want you addicted.
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A Poem about AI Hit 13 Million People Right in the Chest
A bookshop owner from Pennsylvania wrote a viral poem called Please Use AI — and it's not what you think.
The irony is the whole point: Shawn Smucker urges you to use AI for your meal plan — because then you won't call your friend, and accidentally hear about her father's illness, her loneliness, the garden she lost to an early frost.
It hit 670,000 likes in a week because it named something people already felt: in a world optimized for efficiency, the messy, inefficient moments — the long phone calls, the clumsy toasts, the arm going numb because you won't move and wake your sleeping kid — are the ones that actually matter.
The real argument isn't anti-AI.
It's pro-human.
Use the tools, but don't let them quietly replace the moments that make life feel like yours.
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The Best AI Announcement of the Year Wasn't AI
Merriam-Webster posted a slick 35-second video announcing their "newest Large Language Model (AI LLM)" — floating buzzwords, dramatic voiceover — and the internet braced for another AI product launch.
The twist: it was their 12th edition printed dictionary, slowly rotating. "There's artificial intelligence — and then there's actual intelligence" they said.
Everything AI promises to be, a dictionary already is.
The bit lands because the specs are real — their "LLM" has 217,000 rigorously defined parameters, never hallucinates, requires no data center, and uses zero electricity.
In a world where every brand is rushing to slap "AI-powered" on something, Merriam-Webster reminded us that some of the most powerful tools for human communication were built slowly, carefully, by humans — and still are.
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Microsoft's AI Has One Goal: Addiction
Leaked internal documents reveal that Microsoft's Phase 1 plan for Scout, its new always-on AI for Microsoft 365, was literally labeled "Make people addicted" — with a three-phase roadmap described as "from addictive app to agentic platform."
This isn't a metaphor. The document, written by Scout's own project lead, explicitly calls for building "the skill and tool ecosystem that makes people depend on it daily."
Microsoft's public response? CEO Satya Nadella said he had no idea what the document was — until 404 Media pointed out his own executives wrote it.
This is the same playbook Facebook ran for years — engineer dependency first, ask questions later — and we know exactly how that ended.
Here's what Big Tech won't say out loud: every AI query has an energy cost. Designing for addiction isn't just a mental health problem, it's an environmental one. More usage, more servers, more coal burned in the dark.
At Viro AI, we're building the opposite: an AI that funds renewable energy every time you use it — because the goal was never to hook you, it was to help you and the planet thrive.
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