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Ai slop books biography amazon

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Hypervisible Kashmir Hill Sarah T Roberts, PhD Mor Naaman evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog Andrew Heiss +3

“Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...”

““As economists, they told me, they’re less concerned with literary quality or customer satisfaction than revenue growth and market expansion.” You don’t say.”

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Kashmir Hill: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Salomé Viljoen: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Kashmir Hill: To quote myself... "My biography was no 'Fifty Shades.' The only punishing part was reading it."
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

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Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Luke Stark Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Dr J. Rosenbaum +1

“For ideas on how to do that, see: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Atlantic essay AI writing tic

The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious - The Atlantic

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Will Oremus Frank Pasquale Cori Crider René Walter

“OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...”

““One of the main ways that AI models have continued to evolve is by training on text generated by other bots. That AI text is presumably replete with negative parallelism, which further bakes it into the newer model.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...”

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Will Oremus: I set out to understand why AIs love negative parallelism. The answer wasn't just surprising—it was illuminating. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Will Oremus: OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Will Oremus: Anyway I hope you read the whole piece if you're interested, because it isn't just an explainer—it's a journey. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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