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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social

What will it take to get AI bros to read a few of the books these machines are hoovering up instead of swapping hallucinations with ChatGPT. Nobody ever went insane just from reading Middlemarch.

jul 19, 2025, 4:40 pm • 44 8

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social

Adding — I am an AI skeptic to say the least, but it's surely impossible to read this excellent article and not feel some human sympathy for this man and his loved ones. I hope they get him help.

jul 19, 2025, 4:44 pm • 12 0 • view
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Matt Carton @mattcarton.bsky.social

And perhaps they may even see themselves in Casaubon

jul 19, 2025, 4:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social

Excellent point.

jul 19, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view