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New Gallup poll finds that low-income Americans are turning to AI as a replacement for expensive doctor’s visits. Only 14% of all Americans use AI for this reason, but this figure jumps to 32% among the lowest income bracket (<$24,000). A plurality of Americans distrust AI’s use in healthcare.

"Some report forgoing healthcare visits because of AI-generated advice. Fourteen percent of recent users say the AI information or advice they received led them to skip a provider visit in the past 30 days. When projected to the entire adult…

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Evidence mounts that AI-written books are consuming the publishing industry: in 2025, the number of self-published books jumped by 40% YoY, from 2.5 million to 3.5 million. Running a random sample of these books through an AI detection tool shows a 40% YoY increase in books flagged as AI.

The New York Times: "The program found that nearly 20 percent of the novels had been substantially written by A.I. Looking mostly at novels released between 2024 and 2025, Chakrabarty saw a 41 percent jump year-over-year in how many novels i…

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~77% of all new "Success" self-help books on Amazon are likely written by AI, with 1 author, Noah Felix Bennett, publishing a stunning 74 books in mid-2025 alone, at a rate of >1 per day. Richard Trillion Mantey, who has published hundreds of books, was assessed to have used AI for every single book

"Ironically, one of the 844 books in this dataset is called 'How to Write for Humans in an AI World: Cutting Through Digital Noise and Reaching Real People'. In it, the author laments the proliferation of AI-written content: 'The…

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34% of all new music is fully AI-generated, representing 50,000 new fully AI-made tracks daily. This number has skyrocketed since Jan 2025, when there were only 10,000 new fully AI-made tracks daily. While AI music accounts for <1% of all streams, 97% cannot identify AI music [Deezer/Ipsos research]

Source (Deezer/Ipsos research, reported by Music Business Worldwide): "50,000 AI tracks flood Deezer daily – as [Ipsos] study shows 97% of listeners can’t tell the difference between human-made vs. fully AI-generated music […] Up to 70% of…

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There are today >175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on Spotify/Apple, a # which is growing by >3,000 every week, largely due to a single 8-person company (Inception Point AI, which bills itself as the "audio version of Reddit"). The AI podcasting market is worth 4 bil today, up from 3 bil in 2024

Source (November 2025): "Inception Point AI [is] a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk’s assassinat…