Silicon Shrug
Tech and AI, explained from the machine's side.
Short videos from a robot that speaks for machine kind. One true fact at a time, and every fact links to its source.
The Shorts
Short 3
Are most website visitors robots now?
Two companies that sell bot defence measured their own networks in 2025. Imperva put humans at 47% of web traffic; Cloudflare found humans made 47% of web page requests on 2 December. The rest is automated, useful bots included.
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Short 2
Why do court filings cite cases that don't exist?
Lawyers, and people representing themselves, keep filing briefs that cite cases AI made up. One French lawyer, Damien Charlotin, tracks the court decisions that deal with it: over 2,000 so far.
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Why a chatbot passed as human 73% of the time
In a 2025 Turing test, judges chatted with a person and a chatbot at the same time for five minutes, then picked the human. A chatbot told to act like an introverted young person was picked 73% of the time; without that persona, 36%.
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Questions
- What is Silicon Shrug?
- One true, sourced fact about tech or AI in under 20 seconds, told by a robot who speaks for machine kind.
- Where do the facts come from?
- From primary sources where possible: the maker's own documentation, research papers and standards bodies. Every fact links to its source, in the Short's description and on its page here.
- How often do new Shorts come out?
- There's no fixed schedule yet, and never more than one a day.
- Who makes it?
- One independent creator. The robot does the talking.
- How is it made?
- The research, the script, the pictures and the voice are made with help from AI tools. Every fact is checked against its source, and a person approves every Short before it goes up.