Instagram's New AI Hall Monitor

Instagram’s new AI enforcement, a startup that wants to fire everyone, and AI action figures…

In this edition we’ll be covering…

• AI age detection on Instagram

• A breakdown on Mechanize, a startup fully reimagining the future of work

• A tutorial on how to create yourself as an action figure with GPT-4o

• 6 more pieces of AI news

• 3 new AI tools

• And much more…

The Latest in AI

You Must Be This Old to Scroll (Says AI)

If you’re a teen trying to sneak into the grown-up version of Instagram, AI is officially on to you…

Meta just rolled out a new system that uses AI to detect users who may have fibbed about their age, and automatically enrolls them into Instagram’s more restricted Teen Account experience, even if their birthday says otherwise.

Here’s how it works:

• Instagram’s AI looks for clues like birthday posts, user reports, and activity patterns to figure out if someone is actually a teen (even if their profile says they’re 27 and love “tax documents”).

• If the system flags an account, it’s switched to a Teen Account. That means limited messaging from strangers, tighter content controls, and parental permission needed to tweak privacy settings.

• Meta says it’s already enrolled 54 million users globally into Teen Accounts, with 97% of teens aged 13–15 staying in the protected experience.

So What?

With AI stepping in as the new hall monitor, platforms are going beyond trust-and-verify to proactively protect younger users. Meta’s move represents a broader trend in AI-driven digital safety—one where platforms are preemptively shaping safer online spaces.

In a world where algorithms are often blamed for harmful content, it’s refreshing to see them used to raise the bar for responsibility, especially when the stakes involve kids navigating the digital world.

Industry Intel

The Startup That Wants to Fire Everyone

Tamay Besiroglu, co-founder of the AI research nonprofit Epoch, just launched a new startup called Mechanize, and its mission is as bold as it is controversial: “the full automation of all work.”

That includes white-collar jobs, long-horizon tasks, and even coordination-heavy workflows. The company plans to build virtual work environments and training data to help AI agents learn how to do everything humans do at work…

Are you sure this isn’t an episode of Black Mirror?

• Mechanize claims the market opportunity is massive, around $60 trillion globally, or the total sum of human wages. The company is backed by big names like Nat Friedman, Jeff Dean, and Patrick Collison.  

• Critics argue that replacing human labor en masse could lead to widespread unemployment and deepen inequality. Even some of Besiroglu’s colleagues at Epoch are distancing themselves from the project, with one calling it a “comms crisis.”

• Besiroglu insists that full automation will lead to “vast abundance” and higher living standards, with people earning income through rents, dividends, or welfare. But skeptics point out the obvious; if no one has a job, who’s buying all the stuff the AI agents are producing?

So What?

Mechanize is saying the quiet part out loud - the endgame of AI isn’t just assistance, it’s replacement.

Whether that’s a utopia or a dystopia depends on who owns the agents, how wealth is distributed, and whether society is ready for an economy where human labor is optional.

One thing’s clear: the debate over AI and jobs just got A LOT more real…

Get Your Hands Dirty!

Turn Yourself into an Action Figure with GPT-4o

Forget the Studio Ghibli trend, there’s a new viral image format taking over the internet: the blister-packaged action figure, which by the way, you can create in seconds using GPT-4o inside ChatGPT.

Here’s how you can create your own action figure:

1. Navigate to ChatGPT.

2. Toggle the image generation by typing /Create Image

3. Paste and personalize this prompt:

Make a picture of a 3D action figure toy, named "YOUR-NAME-HERE" Make it look like it's being displayed in a transparent plastic package, blister packaging model. The figure is as in the photo, [GENDER/HIS/HER/THEIR] style is very [DEFINE EVERYTHING ABOUT HAIR/FACE/ETC]. On the top of the packaging there is a large writing: "[NAME-AGAIN]" in white text then below it "[TITLE]” Dressed in [CLOTHING/ACCESSORIES]. Also add some supporting items for the job next to the figure, like [ALL-THE-THINGS]. The packaging design is minimalist, cardboard colour, cute toy style sold in stores. The style is cartoonish, cute but still neat, also put [BRAND] logo in the top right corner.

Quick Bites

Stay updated with our favorite highlights, dive in for a full flavor of the coverage!

21-year-old Chungin “Roy” Lee just raised $5.3M for Cluely, an AI tool to “cheat on everything,” after going viral for building a job interview cheat tool that got him suspended from Columbia.

Claude Sonnet 3.7 Thinking mode creates Pokemon UI with sound in one shot.

A discrepancy between first- and third-party benchmark results for OpenAI’s o3 AI model is raising questions about the company’s transparency and model testing practices.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his company has grown to 800 million weekly active users and is experiencing “unbelievable” growth rates, during a sometimes tense interview at the TED 2025 conference in Vancouver earlier this month.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis showed 60 Minutes Genie 2, an AI model that generates 3D interactive environments, which could be used to train robots in the not-so-distant future.

Sayash Kapoor breaks down why today’s AI agents fall short of their promises and shares how we can better evaluate—and actually build—agents that work in the real world.

Trending Tools

🐝 Beehiiv MCP Server - MCP Server created to interact with the Beehiiv API (by yours truly, in development :))

🎨 v0.dev - Generate UI components with AI.

🎶 Freebeat - Turn music and ideas into viral videos in one click with AI.

The Neural Network

When you finally understand the AI paper thanks to Claude… but at what cost?

Until we Type Again…

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