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Sources cited:
End of the web as we know it: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/its-the-end-of-the-web-as-we-know-it-2ab686a2
AI generated slop: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-generated-slop-quietly-conquering-internet-it-threat-journalism-or-problem-will-fix-itself
NewsGuard AI-generated news sites: https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/ai-tracking-center/
Negative impact on critical thinking (SBS): https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6
Negative impact on critical thinking (MSFT): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
News Literacy Project: https://newslit.org/news-literacy-in-america/
Teen cellphone use: https://www.the74million.org/article/alarming-national-data-teens-use-cell-phones-for-quarter-of-school-day/
News habits (Pew): https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/17/more-americans-regularly-get-news-on-tiktok-especially-young-adults/
Popular bots lean left – https://cps.org.uk/research/the-politics-of-ai/
LLM’s cannot reason – https://arxiv.org/html/2410.05229v1
Chatbots – do they have a legal duty to tell the truth? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240197
Chatbot misinformation fail rate (NewsGuard): https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/deepseek-debuts-with-83-percent-fail
How do teens feel about Gen AI: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/research-brief-teens-trust-and-technology-in-the-age-of-ai
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