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Culture Magazine Urges Professional Writers to Resist AI, Boycott and Stigmatize AI Slop


The editors of the culture magazine n + 1 decry the "well-funded upheaval" caused by a large and powerful coalition of pro-AI forces. ("According to the logic of market share as social transformation, if you move fast and break enough things, nothing can contain you...") "An extraordinary amount o...

("According to the logic of market share as social transformation, if you move fast and break enough things, nothing can contain you...")"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. The technology's dizzying pace of improvement, already slowing with the release of GPT-5, will stall... [P]rofessional readers and writers: We retain some power over the terms and norms of our own intellectual life. Resist the call to establish worthless partnerships like the Washington Post's Ember, an "AI writing coach" designed to churn out Bezos-friendly op-eds.

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