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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 09/28/2025 21:32 EDT

Culture Magazine Urges Professional Writers to Resist AI, Boycott and Stigmatize AI Slop

The editors of the culture magazine n + 1 decry the "well-funded upheaval" caused by a large and powerful coalition of pro-AI forces. ("According to the logic of market share as social transformation, if you move fast and break enough things, nothing can contain you...")
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

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