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How I stopped 'AI doomscrolling' using the Digital Wellbeing features Google forgot to include
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How I stopped 'AI doomscrolling' using the Digital Wellbeing features Google forgot to include

Android Police·Rahul Naskar·about 1 month ago
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Published Apr 26, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT I consume a lot of tech content every day, and I have been doing it for more than a decade. I never questioned whether I was consuming way more than I should. That changed with the advent of generative AI. I recently realized that what I was consuming was not only information about AI. A lot of it is repetitive, emotionally charged content disguised as something informative that I needed to know — what I would call AI Doomscrolling . I know what triggered this thought. I started thinking about it after realizing I consume too much negative content about AI, which dominates a large part of tech coverage. Quitting tech content altogether to prevent AI Doomscrolling didn’t make any sense, so I tried something smarter. I initially thought Google’s Digital Wellbeing could fix this, but its tools weren’t strong enough. It’s a shame that I had to look somewhere else for this.…

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