🤖🌍🚀Automation Nation: How Duolingo and Fiverr Are Redefining Work

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💯🤖 Top 100 Gen AI Use Cases – 2025 Edition

🕵️‍♂️💻 Inside the AI Box: Leaked AI Prompts Exposed

🤖 Automation Nation: How Duolingo and Fiverr are redefining work

 🎭🤖 AI Persuasion Bots invade Reddit

💯🤖 Top 100 Gen AI Use Cases - 2025 Edition

From Code to Counselors — AI’s Getting Deep

If you still think AI is just for writing emails and debugging code, the 2025 alarm clock is ringing, and it’s time to wake up.

Marc Zao-Sanders dropped an updated list of the Top 100 Generative AI Use Cases, and the vibe (coding) has shifted.

🔥 What’s Hot in 2025:

• AI Therapists & Digital Soulmates: People use AI to grieve, vent, and figure themselves out. It’s no longer just about productivity; it’s about emotional companionship.

• Life Purpose Prompting: From midlife crisis to Monday motivation, GenAI is the new life coach (without the incense or the invoice).

• Smarter Work, Not Just Faster: Code gen and upskilling still dominate, but users are becoming savvier about using AI to think, not just automate.

📉 What’s Cooling Off:

• Entertainment use cases are slipping. Less “write me a haiku about raccoons,” more “help me restructure my priorities and finally launch that SaaS MVP.”

I was surprised to see Therapy/Companionship at the top of the list. I totally didn’t have this on my radar, and I will have to investigate further and report back my findings.

I summarized the Top 10 use cases in this Google Sheet.

🔗 Check out the complete list (or get inspired to build #101):

🧠 Inside the AI Box: Leaked AI Prompts

Ever wonder how ChatGPT decides to be helpful, harmless, or hilariously vague?

Thanks to a GitHub repo by @jujumilk3, we now have a peek behind the AI curtains.
This open collection reveals leaked system prompts from major AI players like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others — the exact instructions that shape how their AI models behave.

🧠 What’s inside:

• System-level directives that define tone, guardrails, and capabilities

• Prompts used by ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and more

• Markdown-formatted files with reproducible and sourced examples

🚨 Why it matters:

• It exposes the "hidden personality" layer of AI assistants

• It gives devs and prompt engineers inspiration (and maybe concerns)

• It raises transparency vs. security questions in the LLM arms race

These prompts are great for helping you write better prompts. Browse through the list for some inspiration.

🤖 Automation Nation: How Duolingo and Fiverr Are Redefining Work

The AI revolution isn’t just disrupting workflows, it’s displacing people.

Duolingo has officially declared itself an “AI-First” company, replacing 10% of its contract workers, including many human translators, with generative AI. The company claims this is about efficiency and scalability. Obviously, employees were unhappy with this message, and critics call it a short-sighted move that sacrifices quality and ethical responsibility for speed.

Meanwhile, Fiverr’s CEO didn’t mince words: “AI is coming for your job. Mine too.”
Fiverr is embracing automation while simultaneously launching a PR campaign to prepare freelancers for a future where AI undercuts their rates and replaces entire categories of work.

The response? A growing wave of pushback from workers, unions, and creators questioning where the human element fits in an algorithmically optimized world.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke shared a memo outlining his controversial stance on AI. Lütke said that before teams asked for more headcount or resources, they needed to show “why they cannot get what they want done using AI.”

Is this the right approach? Only time will tell how companies embrace AI.

🎭🤖 AI Persuasion Bots Invade Reddit, which resulted in an Academia Ethical Meltdown

In a plot twist worthy of a Black Mirror episode, researchers from the University of Zurich unleashed AI-generated personas on Reddit's r/ChangeMyView subreddit. These bots, masquerading as trauma counselors and political activists, engaged in over 1,700 debates, convincingly swaying opinions without users' knowledge or consent.

The academic team claimed their covert operation was a study on AI's persuasive power. However, Reddit moderators and the broader community weren't amused, labeling the experiment a severe breach of trust and ethics. The fallout? A full-blown scandal that's ignited debates on the boundaries of AI research and the sanctity of online communities.

Not even my trolling comments on Reddit are safe anymore.