What does my head in is that any of this needs to be said (it's an excellent thread of course). There's so little in the world that I recognise any more except greed and stupidity—but even those are strange new monsters now, freed as they are from the institutional checks that I took for granted.
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚
Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
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