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The AI Downside, a Field Guide to AI’s Dark Patterns

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An anti-hype publication documenting AI failures, security risks, pricing shifts, privacy problems, and the ways AI products become less user-friendly.

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The site has a clear editorial premise and a substantial archive, with pieces on prompt injection, metered AI subscriptions, AI coding hype, and the open web. Its reader-funded, ad-free stance is summed up by the newsletter promise: “One email, occasionally, when something is worth complaining about.”

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