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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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ChatGPT AI flyer pandemic essay

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

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Meredith Broussard 404 Media Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler Sam Cole James Grimmelmann tante Clive Thompson

““It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...”

“This “good enough” attempt at graphic design…isn’t.”

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Jason Koebler: ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
Jason Koebler: good on you! i see soooo many of them now
Jason Koebler: sadly and perveresly i wanna see these but i see so many fewer presentations these days
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