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More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’

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Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

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Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

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Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams

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The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán will join Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria’s romance scammers.

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The New ‘Odyssey’ Movie Is Sparking a Right-Wing Backlash. This Female Scholar Knows It Well

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Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of Homer’s epic—the first by a woman—was called a woke “abomination” by online reactionaries. Christopher Nolan’s film is facing similar critiques.

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Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien

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The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.

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Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal

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Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They’re certainly not alone.

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The Moms Who Sponcon Their Daughters’ First Periods

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From Mormon momfluencer domination to boosting engagement with partially clothed kids, journalist Fortesa Latifi’s new book exposes the dark and complex world of child influencers.

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AI Will Never Be Conscious

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In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

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An ‘Intimacy Crisis’ Is Driving the Dating Divide

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In his book The Intimate Animal, sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need for human intimacy, which is the real issue at root of the loneliness epidemic.

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You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel

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Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise.

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