"It may not surprise you that Time magazine has elected to highlight the AI industry in its annual "Person of the Year" issue. Or should we say persons: the collective billionaire "architects of AI," it announced. But what may surprise you is a new feature prominently displayed on 's website: a window for an AI chatbot. "Ask me anything," it reads. It does not go away. Instead, the chatbot window stays fixed to the bottom center of your screen."
"There's no x-button to close the AI window, and as far as we can tell, no other means of swatting it away. If you click in the text box, it expands to filling the entire page. Call it an ironic metaphor for the tech and AI's industry capturing of news and media, if you want. It's also just plain annoying."
Time Magazine placed a persistent AI chatbot window on its homepage that remains fixed at the bottom center of the screen and blocks content. The chatbot expands when clicked and lacks an x-button or other visible means to close it. The feature is presented as an autonomous AI agent trained on the magazine's 102-year archive of nearly 750,000 issues and web assets, capable of generating summaries, audio rundowns, and answers. The chatbot was developed in partnership with Scale AI. The intrusive placement drew criticism from computational linguistics expert Emily M. Bender as obstructive to journalistic content.
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