AI slop is mostly a people problem, not a model problem. Alex's framing here is blunt: the only time the Content Machine produces slop is when the person being interviewed doesn't share interesting enough ideas during the interview. The model is shaping clay, not inventing ideas. If the clay is bad, the sculpture will be bad.
For five and a half years, David Senra read one business biography a week, recorded a podcast about it, and published each episode to almost no one. Today, Founders is a cult obsession among some of the world's most powerful CEOs and billionaires, and a one-man business generating millions in annual profit.
one of the ironies of writing a book is that your publisher asks to you sharpen your Instagram skills so that you can sell it on a platform that is wildly post-literate and is the same time the home of many writers dancing as fast as they can to create attention for the product of all that sweat and toil.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
