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Live commerce is supposed to make online shopping feel human. Yet the more hours a brand wants to stream, the harder and more expensive it becomes to keep a human on screen. Automation solves the coverage problem, but it can also strip away the rapport that makes the format persuasive.

In February 2022, five days before the Army deployed the author’s company as the European Contingency Response Force in response to the Russian buildup ahead of the invasion of Ukraine, paratroopers conducted a final test flight of the RQ-11 Raven. The Raven was not a sophisticated platform; flying it sometimes felt like playing a legacy…

The online revolution enabled frictionless access to virtually every type of content — including adult content. Generative AI has added a whole new, and potentially more dangerous, dimension to the boom in explicit content. In the absence of strong safeguards, AI users can transition from consumers to creators of their own explicit media with shocking ease…