AI Bots Prove Social Media May Be Broken by Design 🌐

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Social media platforms have been known to exacerbate political and social polarization in people, but would the same happen on a social media platform where every user was AI?

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Even AI Can’t Escape Social Media’s Tribalism

• Grammarly Gets a Redesign and Launches New AI Agents

• AI Tutorial: Extend any video with AI

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

AI RESEARCH

Even AI Can’t Escape Social Media’s Tribalism

Is the problem with social media the algorithms, or is it us? A new study suggests the problem might be baked into the very idea of a social platform.

Details:

• Researchers created a simple social network where all 500 users were AI bots powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini model, intended to replicate how humans interact.

• Each bot was given different political views and tasked with interacting with each other and the content available on the platform, without any algorithms pushing content.

• The result was not a friendly online town square. The AI bots chose to follow and talk only with others that shared their assigned political beliefs. They created echo chambers automatically, where the bots posting the most one-sided and partisan content gained the most followers and reposts.

• To combat this self-selecting polarization, the researchers tried several solutions, such as hiding follower counts, showing posts in time order, hiding user profiles, and amplifying opposing views.

• None made a big difference, and some even made the divide worse, with the unintended effect of amplifying more extreme voices.

The study shows that the key dysfunctions of social media may be part of its basic design and not easily fixed with a few code tweaks. The problem is not just in the machine, but in how we use it.

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GRAMMARLY

Grammarly Gets a Redesign and Launches New AI Agents

Grammarly just got a major update. It now has a completely new design and 8 new AI agents to help “at every stage of the writing process” for both students and professionals. The most notable ones include:

• Reader Reactions, an agent that lets you pick a reader persona and get feedback on your writing based on that persona.

• Grader provides feedback based on an instructor’s guidelines and publicly available course material.

• Citation Finder, helps you find and generate citations from public sources.

• Paraphraser, modifies a text’s tone according to your preferences.

• Plagiarism Checker and AI Detector, agents that scan text to ensure content is original or human-generated, respectively.

These agents are rolling out to Grammarly’s Free and Pro tiers, though the plagiarism checker and AI detector will only be available to paid users “at launch.” The company also plans to keep adding more AI agents in the future.

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AI Tutorial

Extend any video with AI

1. Capture a reference frame by taking a screenshot of the last frame of your video. Make sure it is a high-quality image.

2. Use an AI video tool, such as Kling AI, to extend your footage. Look for the "Generate from Image" option.

3. Write a detailed description of what you want to happen next to guide the AI's video generation, and then generate your video.

4. Combine your original video with the AI-generated sequence using video editing software like CapCut.

AI Tools to check out

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AI Findings/Resources

🤖 First-ever World Humanoid Robot Games conclude in Beijing — here are the highlights

📈 AI Compute Power by Region 2019–2025

🤔 35 thoughts about AGI and 1 about GPT-5

👀 AI Progress since GPT-3.5

⭐ awesome-ai-apps – A collection of practical examples, tutorials, and recipes for building powerful LLM-powered applications.

The latest in AI and Tech

OpenAI rolls out cheapest ChatGPT plan at $4.6 in India

The new paid subscription plan is called ChatGPT GO, priced at ₹399 per month ($4.60), making it significantly more affordable than the ₹1,999 Plus Plan.

This plan increases message limits, image generation, and file uploads by 10 times compared to the free tier, and also improves memory retention for more personalized responses.

Nvidia releases new open-source model Nemotron-Nano-9B-V2

This small but powerful open-source language model is suitable for both instruction following and code generation, supports multiple languages, and also allows users to toggle AI “reasoning” on and off.

The Qwen team introduces Qwen-Image-Edit

This open-source image editing model offers two modes: precise adjustments to specific areas and broader, consistent edits such as style changes, viewpoint shifts, and the addition or removal of objects and text. It is also great at manipulating text in images in both Chinese and English.

ChatGPT mobile app earnings reach $2B to date

ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android has reached $2 billion in global consumer spending, according to Appfigures. Although it has been around longer than its competitors, the app also outperforms them in revenue per download: $2.91 for ChatGPT, compared to Claude’s $2.55, Grok’s $0.75, and Copilot’s $0.28.

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