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Bond launches social media platform with AI designed to push users away from the app and back into real life

Bond launches social media platform with AI designed to push users away from the app and back into real life

Bond, a new social media platform, uses an AI system programmed to encourage users to leave the app and spend time offline instead—reversing the typical goal of engagement-maximizing algorithms that other platforms use to keep people scrolling.

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