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Slop may disappear, but AI content won't
+ This week's AI news, from a professor driven to madness by the typewriters next door
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What T-Pain can teach us about AI norms
+ This week's AI news for creatives, read by a fruit stand owner who loves AI-slop fruit videos.
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How treating AI like a toy can make you more creative
In roleplay there are no stakes, work is far away — and you can really turn your imagination loose.
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Imitation is the most insidious AI threat
The problem isn't slop. It's AI content that's actually good — and sounds exactly like you.
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If you can't say what "done" looks like, don't use AI
A simple, durable framework for when your boss says "we should automate this."
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Why I'm keeping AI away from my drudgery
How to decide which tedious, miserable parts of creative work to hand off to AI, and which to keep for yourself.
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What's happening with creative jobs
If Claude Code is a harbinger, how worried should we be?
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Fort Human
Fort Human
Dispatches on creative work, from the frontiers of AI. Will we find a way through? Or will we be lost, stranded, forced to eat each other in order to survive? We forge ahead.
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