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Gil Durán

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California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, network state, crypto cartels. Writing: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
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Using chatbots for nonfiction and journalism seems like playing Russian roulette with a semi-automatic firearm. Writing is hard enough without a minefield of fabricated quotes and flagrant plagiarism. Also, the cognitive offloading seems to weaken discipline. www.nytimes.com/2…

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  • The Future of Truth, a book about AI disinformation, contained AI-fabricated quotes attributed to real people that passed editorial review.
  • EY Canada separately retracted a client report days earlier after 60% of its citations were found to be AI hallucinations.
  • Both failures share the same mechanism: AI tools inserted at the research stage produced fabrications that downstream human review did not catch.
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“Big Tech is essentially its own religion with its own theology and rites, not to mention its own power and influence. Pope Leo’s encyclical will be automatically viewed as false doctrine.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/t...

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Dems like Bernie Sanders and AOC are using regulations to effect change in the AI industry—but their goals are informed by hypecycle bluster from Silicon Valley higher-ups rather than workers. Me for @nytimes.com

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One thing AI LLMs are very good at: convincing their victims that mediocrity is greatness, and that the ability to generate high volumes of mediocre content is a substitute for skill, talent, or work. This is the distinct impression I get every time I look at LinkedIn.

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Peter Thiel's interest in New Zealand and Argentina traces back to the 1997 book "The Sovereign Individual," which argued that technology would collapse nation-states like the USA in the 21st century. Almost 30 years later, he is still chasing the "prophecy" (now AI and Antichrist-enhanced)

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Did anyone happen to capture screenshots of the Objection AI website (the Thiel-funded app to go after journalists)? The original website has been removed (already!) and it's not preserved in WayBack Machine.

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I used Grammarly for many years but quit once it pivoted to shoving AI down everyone's throat. At the end, it was both offering to rewrite your stuff with AI...and to detect any AI writing. A nice circular economy of baiting and busting, which seems to be where we are now.

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