Less monitoring. More value.

Spotify Premium users in the US can now use text to directly adjust how the algorithm recommends music, podcasts, and audiobooks, including removing unwanted patterns (e.g., music played while sleeping or listening by someone else on a shared account).

Anyone who uses AI outputs without verifying the underlying source material will not recognize the risk of fabricated facts or citations until it causes a problem – and without training (which 61 % of users lack, according to the cited survey), these blind spots are harder to recognize.

When making a decision based on an answer from an AI system (e.g. to a health or personal question), first identify the type of answer and then choose how to verify it, rather than relying on its fluent and persuasive tone.

Increasing warnings from experts at OpenAI and Anthropic about the impact of automation on jobs, which Gore describes as sincere, suggest that the expert community is taking the risk of job losses due to AI increasingly seriously, rather than viewing it merely as marketing rhetoric.

A developer using coding agents should expect that their benefit does not come automatically, but requires sustained discipline in checking and managing their outputs.

Photographers should be aware that common AI features in editors (filling in details, smoothing textures) are no longer just technical corrections, but may actually compute or create part of an image without the resulting file or metadata clearly distinguishing it from the original capture.

Apple states that Apple Intelligence runs on-device whenever possible, so iPhone users should have greater control over their personal data than with solutions that send it elsewhere for processing.

Job applicants who pay to optimize their CVs with tools such as Jobscan rely on the assumption that an AI filter evaluates their application — but according to the source, that assumption does not hold universally, so investing in these tools may not have the desired effect, and the paid service also has no incentive to get applicants off the job market quickly.

Anyone using AI tools in their work must reckon with the fact that verifying and correcting outputs can take up a substantial part of the time saved, rather than counting on an automatic time saving.

For independent study, the tools can be used to repeat conversations and revise one's own texts. Suggested corrections need to be evaluated, and contact with people should also be maintained; using AI by itself has no proven sufficiency for achieving fluency.