everybody who likes a.i. writes a four paragraph rant about how much they hate artists and it’s like dude you don’t like ai, you just wanted to fuck somebody over

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I believe in my heart that, for a non-zero percentage of genAI touts, feeling like they’re punishing creatives for daring to have “fun” jobs when they were forced into jobs they have no personal passion for is part of the draw. “There! Now you have to get a ‘real job,’ just like they made ME do!”

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Here is another list of things to look out for: Is the place attacked real? Is someone doing a flying jump kick that looks like wire work? Again, is it confirming *someone's* biases? I'm not saying this to be moralizing, I'm afraid we all have to become stewards of reality!

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As a result, an entire ecosystem of firms offering discrete bulk purchases of usually-conservative books has cropped up, with the aim of getting their clients a spot on the NYT bestsellers list. The NYT has responded to this by adding a dagger (t) to entries that made the grade via bulk purchasing.

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Fun fact: It's well-understood in publishing—in the US,anyway—that the audiences of right-wingers, generally speaking, do not read. However, those ppl still insist on publishing books. And to avoid this kind of embarrassment, they Astroturf their sales with bulk purchases through third parties.

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