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Google's YouTube
Coverage of Google's YouTube in the Nexus archive.
- Are AI chatbots making us lose control of our brains?
Psychologist Gloria Mark's research shows human attention spans have decreased from 2.5 minutes in 2003 to 47 seconds by 2020 due to digital technologies. Frequent attention switching causes stress and reduces task performance, with lawsuits against Meta and Google's YouTube alleging addictive product design harms children.