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Reflect Weekly - Train the Vibe, Reddit vs Perplexity, AI Bans Teens

Nurture loops that boost AI, chatbots card teens, and scraping finally sees court. Let's talk.

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Raymond Christian
October 30, 2025

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This week's reflections

  1. Top clip: Raise your AI like a prodigy.

  2. Pop and a Pause: Chatbot checks ID’s; Scraping goes to court.

Top clip

“ID Please” Character.ai is raising age gates.

Character.AI is blocking teens from open-ended chats. Teens get ID checks and guided story modes instead. Translation: boundaries are getting clearer while the tools get better.

Watch: Raymond on nurturing your AI—why tone, guidance, and consistency matter, and why AI mirrors you.

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Pop

A quick, topical reference to some things happening in tech or culture.

Privacy is getting teeth.

Reddit is suing Perplexity over scraping; OpenAI and Google are in the licensing conversation. Big picture: the web is drawing clearer lines. Paid, permissioned data → better models, fair credit for creators, more control for users. Cleaner, bigger.

…and a Pause

A deeper editorial dive on a topic.

Draw the Line First

Imagine a workshop light

One lamp. One bench. You talk for a minute—the room hands your thoughts back straighter.

AI here isn’t a judge. It’s the pencil line on the wood before you cut. It helps you see the grain: where the line wants to go, where it might splinter, where a tiny shim makes the whole thing sit flush.

Some nights you sand. Some nights you just label parts. Either way, you leave a little more aligned than you came.

Questions for tonight:

  • What one task unlocks the rest?

  • What can I stop for one week?

  • What would “done for today” mean in one sentence?

  • What 10-minute win I can do now?

That’s worth a pause.

Flip the lamp on. Join the waitlist.

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