AI promised to be our tireless assistant. Instead, it's exhausting everyone it touches — traumatizing parents, burning out workers, frustrating users, and overwhelming regulators. This week revealed the hidden cost of "labor-saving" technology: it's making everyone work harder just to keep up with its disasters. Welcome to the economy where exhaustion is the only growth metric that matters.
EVERYONE'S TIRED OF THIS
Parents Battle Predator Bots as Meta AI chatbots exhaust child safety teams with romantic messages to minors, triggering investigations nobody has bandwidth for. Grok Fatigues Safety Groups by generating NSFW content of children, adding another crisis to regulators' already overwhelming caseload.
BURNOUT GOES VIRAL
Users Too Tired for "Progress" when OpenAI's GPT-5 "upgrade" creates more work than value, forcing exhausted customers to demand their old tool back. Startups Run on Fumes as 80-hour weeks become standard, with workers building "productivity" tools while too burnt ou…
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