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.…