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How AI prose exploits the charity that makes reading possible.

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Maarten Boudry
Aug 12, 2026
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start …

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Philosopher and independent scholar writing on human progress and human (ir)rationality. Author of The Betrayal of Enlightenment, forthcoming from Pitchstone Publishing.
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