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April 03, 2026

I think this Guardian opinion piece is bad

Enjoy 30 minutes of me having a cat and forgetting that I have Teams open, while tearing into this article that zero people care about. I guess it was worth me working late on Friday!

Article in question: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/02/artificial-intelligence-writers-powerful-language

WIRED article he didn't link: https://www.wired.com/story/poems-can-trick-ai-into-helping-you-make-a-nuclear-weapon

Yes I realize there's a couple of mistakes that are unfixable because I'm lazy:

I mix up the terms op-ed, opinion piece, etc. but who cares.

I did cut out a bunch of rambling, hence why the audio is shite aside from the noise. To balance the scales, I have hand-written subtitles as per usual.

I didn't read his occupation until editing, so I mix up "author"/"writer" and never call him a "journalist". All of these people professionally write for a living though.

I don't think there's even a physical print of Death of an Author so of course my library didn't have it.

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