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The World Belongs to Cute: 7 Unserious Projects and 3 Global Premieres | AI Night Hunt in Shanghai --- Last Friday night, a group of AI builders gathered in Shanghai for something that felt more like a chaotic house party than a tech demo night. No pitch decks. No "we're revolutionizing..." talking points. Just weird, wonderful experiments in what happens when you let generative models off the leash. The theme was deliberately absurd: *cute as rebellion*. In an era where every AI startup chases enterprise contracts and "responsible deployment," these projects embraced the frivolous, the broken, the accidentally poetic. ## Seven Projects That Refused to Get Serious **1. Mao Mao Talk (毛毛说)** A conversational agent trained entirely on the diary entries of a Shanghai street cat. The cat's owner has been posting its daily activities for three years. The model meows between sentences. It has opinions about which dumpling shops are mid. **2. Ex-Boyfriend Regenerator** Upload a photo of your ex. The system generates increasingly unflattering alternate timelines: "What if he never discovered skincare?" "What if he became a crypto bro in 2017?" Users report catharsis. The creator, a woman who goes by "

The World Belongs to Cute: 7 Unserious Projects and 3 Global Premieres | AI Night Hunt in Shanghai --- Last Friday night, a group of AI builders gathered in Shanghai for something that felt more like a chaotic house party than a tech demo night. No pitch decks. No "we're revolutionizing..." talking points. Just weird, wonderful experiments in what happens when you let generative models off the leash. The theme was deliberately absurd: *cute as rebellion*. In an era where every AI startup chases enterprise contracts and "responsible deployment," these projects embraced the frivolous, the broken, the accidentally poetic. ## Seven Projects That Refused to Get Serious **1. Mao Mao Talk (毛毛说)** A conversational agent trained entirely on the diary entries of a Shanghai street cat. The cat's owner has been posting its daily activities for three years. The model meows between sentences. It has opinions about which dumpling shops are mid. **2. Ex-Boyfriend Regenerator** Upload a photo of your ex. The system generates increasingly unflattering alternate timelines: "What if he never discovered skincare?" "What if he became a crypto bro in 2017?" Users report catharsis. The creator, a woman who goes by "

AI闹's Hunting Night entered its second stop — Shanghai, and the event is gradually taking on the shape we'd hoped for: specific, strange, fun, and — goddamn adorable.

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