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A field guide to potential AI-induced mental habits, compulsions and behavioural quirks that may be emerging in the age of AI.

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Do you recognise any? Did we miss any?

A visualisation of selected lawsuits from over 100 filed against AI companies as of June 2026.

The first salvos in a structural conflict against the inherently extractive nature of AI models? Or a massive legal pile-on? Yeah. Probably both.

Most are copyright claims by authors, record labels, newsrooms, academic publishers and um, Disney who say major AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude have been trained illegally on their creative and commercial output, far beyond “fair use”.

» Explore the graphic
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source: ChatGPTinEatingTheWorld.com, Wired
designed by Mr David McCandless