AI-Generated Bullshit Is A Challenge To Our “Vigilance”

What ChatGPT has in common with magazine copy-editing

Clive Thompson

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I once knew a copy-editor who read all her stories backwards.

She said it forced her to slow down, so she’d catch more mistakes.

Cool technique, eh?

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net