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Maarten Paulusse

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information literacy & education specialist | studied and taught history, american studies, and religious studies

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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 11h
“If we only see the mind as a computer, AI might seem advantageous to learning — this is why many dream of building AI tutors. But already such efforts are failing, because our minds are more than just input-output devices.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“This bookseller said his inventory is full of rare, foreign language, and low circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they’ll be even harder to obtain.”
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We need libraries as safe havens for printed books more than ever… “…a copyright lawsuit from book authors against Anthropic revealed internal documents detailing its plan to obtain and scan millions of printed books, and destroy them in the process” www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/07/2026
Libraries are the last bastion of well structured information environments
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tech CEOs are promising us AI that will soon be as capable as humans (AGI). Some computer scientists are not convinced. Iris van Rooij has warned about the “intractability” of human-like computer systems for decades. We are now seeing signs LLMs are indeed already unscalable at levels far below AGI.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Entirely as expected (see link.springer.com/article/10.1...) --- “Epoch AI … published a graph last year … It shows the exponentially increasing costs of serving more “tokens”—the words users type to chatbots—with several public AI models.” article: archive.ph/IrNBI (h/t @maartenp.bsky.social)
What AI Companies Are Seeing as
They Scale LLMs

costs growing exponentially as a function of tokens, from 0.10 cents to 30 dollars for 50 to 200 dollars respectively. For different models, GPT, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thanks
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is funny, because it confirms that LLM-powered chatbots are easily jailbroken (guardrails are a sham) and it makes Anthropic admit that despite their scaremongering hype marketing, Mythos is not some super hacker. It can spot simple, known exploits like any other model.
In its Friday night announcement post, Anthropic said the government has only provided it with "verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak" that involves getting Fable 5 to review a specific codebase for software flaws. The company says it has only seen evidence of this kind of jailbreak being used to find "minor" and "relatively simple" software vulnerabilities, and that other publicly available models like GPT-5.5 has similar capabilities on this score.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I don’t think you fully understand the stochastic parrot metaphor. Also, you’re building your argument on hype narratives that have already been debunked. Check Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newports debunking of the METR hype: youtu.be/5GezB1XyiQo. And of the Mythos hype: youtu.be/k-8stQCeQiE
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Is AI About to “Eat Everything”? (It’s Not.)
YouTube video by Cal Newport
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
@emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social Please consider giving this the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 treatment…
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Indeed: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrel20/5...
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Religion
Thematic Issue: The Interplay of Religion and Artificial Intelligence. Guest editors: Boris Rähme and Inken Prohl. Volume 55, Issue 3 of Religion
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I guess I'll keep shouting this message from the rooftops until it sticks. Lumping disparate technologies under the ✨"AI"✨ label only inhibits clear discussion and reasoning about what each does. >>
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
www.groene.nl/artikel/wach...
groene.nl
Verslindt de AI-revolutie haar eigen programmeurs? (En al het andere witteboordenwerk)
Vernietigt kunstmatige intelligentie onze banen? De échte AI-revolutie levert vooralsnog een ander, onverwacht drama op, blijkt ook in de Nederlandse tech-sector.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Daarnaast klopt het ook niet dat verbeterde programmeer-“skills” van GenAI tools betekent dat ze ook op alle andere terreinen “slimmer” gaan worden. De LLM’s onder de motorkap kunnen nog steeds niet nadenken, hallucineren in het wilde weg en hun output blijft een op statistiek gebaseerde imitatie
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Jammer dat Koen Haegens niet wat kritischer is hier. GenAI bedrijven richten zich op programmeren omdat het de enige functie is die enigszins fatsoenlijke output genereert, niet omdat de tools zichzelf daarmee snel kunnen verbeteren richting AGI. Dat is pure hype. www.groene.nl/artikel/wach...
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Floor Rusman @floorrusman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Al sinds september heb ik kanker. De ziekte is nu weg, maar om terugkeer te voorkomen of vertragen is een medicijn nodig dat voor mij niet wordt vergoed. Gelukkig zijn mijn vrienden een crowdfunding gestart. Alle donaties zijn welkom en delen helpt ook! www.gofundme.com/f/help-floor...
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Donate to Help Floor aan een levensreddend kankermedicijn!, organized by Elizabeth Prins
Lieve vrienden, familie, en alle lieve mensen, Dear English-speak… Elizabeth Prins needs your support for Help Floor aan een levensreddend kankermedicijn!
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is particularly worrying: “Use is widespread and growing: 1 in 5 adults (20%) report using an AI chatbot or AI search service to find information about the local and devolved elections in the run up to May 7th – that’s equivalent to over 10 million UK adults” - demos.co.uk/research/ele...
demos.co.uk
Electoral Hallucinations: Safeguarding UK elections in the world of LLMs and AI chatbots
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Once you have a basic understanding of how these LLM-powered chatbots work this shouldn’t be a surprise. It is surprising though that there still doesn’t seem to be widespread alarm about the dangers to democracy these tools pose…
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
H/t @wiep.bsky.social & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I don’t agree though with his conclusion that these tools are popular because the summaries are “good” (despite hallucinations). The summaries are not good enough for academic use. They overgeneralise and contain alarming amounts of subtle hallucinations, which are harder to spot than obvious ones
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I desire more in life than to be the “don’t summarise with AI”-guy on bluesky 😅 but reports like this keep coming in, so I’ll repeat ad nauseam, don’t summarise with ‘AI’! www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
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Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?
Author: Maarten Paulusse Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will b...
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thanks for pointing that out. Something to take into account for sure.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social
nature.com
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The world is now so full of ridiculous things that I struggle to deal with it all. But this is not an 'us' problem. The world really is idiotic. I made a list of things that are impossible to believe. Seeing it in writing might help you deal better with the situation. berthub.eu/articles/pos...
berthub.eu
The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-ho...
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The entanglement of Silicon Valley with politics and other public domains such as education should worry us all, especially in the age of GenAI.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Are these “journalists, academics, and left-wing intellectuals in” the room with us? Hij heeft zich duidelijk totaal niet verdiept in wat de kritiek van serieuze critici precies behelst. Hij verwijt critici dat ze naïf zijn, maar snapt de fundamentele kritieken zelf niet.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Ik zou me veiliger voelen op de camping denk ik: www.thearcticinstitute.org/natos-polar-...
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NATO's Polar Pressure Point: The Svalbard Archipelago and the Russian Challenge
Svalbard faces Russian military build-up, disinformation, and diplomatic disputes, posing serious risks to NATO’s security.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I met him once, I was not impressed
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This set is a celebration of electronic music, community, creativity and life. Amazing: youtu.be/gfF8jzBVWvM?...
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Fred again.. & Thomas Bangalter (USB002, Alexandra Palace, London 27 February 2026)
YouTube video by Fred again . .
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Zoolanderization of politics
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Lamyae Aharouay @lamyae.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Wanneer weet je dat de periode die je beschrijft de geschiedenis zal veranderen en wanneer weet je zeker dat iets een voetnoot zal blijken te zijn? Na 7,5 jaar stop ik als politiek verslaggever. Lees hier mijn afscheidsstuk: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Zaken doen met uiterst rechts is geen punt meer in politiek Den Haag: tijd om te gaan
Politiek: In Den Haag zag Lamyae Aharouay hoe uiterst rechts normaal werd gemaakt door andere partijen. Ze was verbijsterd – maar bleef als journalist gefascineerd. Nu wil ze afstand: niet meer steeds...
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
De protestfoto op 8 seconden met de handen die hartjes vormen en het Paleis op de Dam op de achtergrond lijkt ook AI-generated.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Zijn dit bewegende beelden van Den Uyl of een met (GenAI) geanimeerde foto? En de foto van Aletta Jacobs (de foto op haar Wikipedia-pagina) lijkt ook te bewegen. Als het GenAI is dan is dat heel jammer en onnodig, wat mij betreft.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/03/2026
in the end where claude gives him an answer on moratoriums that he doesn’t like, so he pushes back and it gives him the answer he wants is a pretty pure example of the reinforcement bias and sycophancy we talk about with chatbots, but you get the impression he convinced claude he was actually right
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
A screenshot of Google search with verge headlines rewritten as slop

Lego Computer Brick - Engineer James Brown
Aug 20, 2022 — James Brown has brilllantly brought classic Lego computer bricks to life by outfitting them with a tiny OLED screen, processor, ...
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The Verge
https://www.theverge.com› Al> Tech, Reviews:
"Cheat on everything" Al tool
Apr 23, 2025 - Two 21-year-old Columbia University dropouts are proposing a new $5.3 million twist on the concept: use their Al tool Cluely to "cheat on everything." Read more
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https://www.theverge.com» » Microsoft›Al› Tech:
Copilot Changes: Marketing Teams at it Again
22 Aug 2024 — Microsoft is getting ready to rebrand its Copilot for its business Al efforts. It's part of an effort to push Microsoft 365 Al tools.
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https://www.theverge.com› Wearable Science Tech:
Dexcom Stelo hands-on - OTC Continuous Glucose Monitor
Aug 26, 2024 - The $99 Dexcom Stelo is an over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor designed for Type 2 diabetics who don't use insulin.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Arnold's editorial team is modeling critical thinking and I am here for it.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
On the topic of AI-generated summaries, this short article I wrote might interest you: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
tue.nl
Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?
Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I’m going to keep pushing this article I wrote, as long as AI-generated summaries are causing trouble: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
tue.nl
Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?
Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The journalist: “I underestimated the power of hallucinations” Another passage: “AI output is often close to the truth. This was also the case with these citations.” Assistant professor Hannes Cools: “Still, there is a fundamental difference between the truth, and close to the truth.”
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Almost daily reports now on how AI-generated summaries are wreaking havoc in academia, journalism, law, and elsewhere. Today, how a prominent Belgian journalist wrote 15 articles containing fake quotes, taken from AI summaries (in Dutch): www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
nrc.nl
Hoe een journalist uitglijdt op door AI verzonnen citaten
Gebruik van AI-programma’s als ChatGPT als schrijfassistent leidt regelmatig tot missers. Na incidenten in media, wetenschap en advocatuur, ging nu ook journalist Peter Vandermeersch in de fout. „Ik h...
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
See also: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
tue.nl
Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?
Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Never use GenAI tools to summarise or verify information. It’s unreliable and will introduce misinformation into the public sphere, muddying discussions. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Heel mooi essay van @chrisjulien.bsky.social dit: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Opinie | Bekijk de stad eens vanuit het perspectief van een boom
Natuur: Met de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen in aantocht zijn andere perspectieven meer dan welkom, schrijft Chris Julien. Zo leeft een boom nooit alleen voor zichzelf.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Is this the future we want? nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Laid-off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their Careers
Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.
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