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The Hofmann Wobble

By Justin G. on

A friend sent me a link to Ben Lerner’s story in Harper’s this morning, and it’s a striking complement to the Borges and AI article I linked to yesterday. I suppose I should be skeptical of this text at all levels, but I still want to quickly comment on one aspect that I think is useful. Instead of a machine putting out texts that maybe are useful or manipulative or just wrong, we have a human doing it in almost the same context of authoritative source.

It’s a lucky conjunction of ideas.

Also, it reminded me of the Chinese Wikipedia editor that made up a lot of Russian history.

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The Link: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/12/the-hofmann-wobble-wikipedia-and-the-problem-of-historical-memory/

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