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Why #AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation - theregister.com/2026/02/16/sem… "The result is a "JPEG of thought" – visually coherent but stripped of its original data density through semantic ablation." #creativity

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in reply to Keith Wansbrough

wow, this was a wonderful piece to read, thanks for sharing, and for introducing me to this great artist

I was so moved that I cried with joy at various passages. thank you, Robert, for writing it

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in reply to Alexandre Oliva

@lxo Thank you! I cried while writing it! Sean is recording the audio version but I hope the RSS feed makes it into your reader or the podcast feed in your podcast player. here is my follow page at sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you don’t like reading, my podcast is weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized
in reply to Robert Kingett

you've got a talent.
the Colonization is the most vivid English nonfiction I have read around in a long while. a blind person painting the brightest pictures of the world, described in words.
this reminded me Samuel Beckett in some sense. and this is amazing.
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in reply to Iron Bug

oh, nonfiction? I had assumed beautiful plausible verisimilar first-person fiction, but if it's nonfiction, that makes it even more awesome! please, please, pretty please, goddesses whose powers make the universe a more tolerable place, let it be nonfiction! 😉

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in reply to Alexandre Oliva

yes, I noticed the tag after I read the text. I thought it was fiction too. but it's not. and this makes it even more amazing.
in reply to Iron Bug

I particularly loved the imagery of a blended salad. I've seen people refer to LLM slop as word salad, and adding the notion of blending to it makes it even more appropriate. and you know what, Blended Salad has the same initials as Bull Shit, which gives a new twist to BS generators (GenBS for short)

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in reply to Alexandre Oliva

@lxo @iron_bug That was the word/image play I was aiming for. I got to admit, I never even considered the BS side effect acronym until just now! Who knew that I would get to experience death of the author on my own work!
in reply to Robert Kingett

>Who knew that I would get to experience death of the author on my own work!
the autheor is dead, viva la author!