Six Years Ago This Station Bookshop Had No AI Books — Now They're Everywhere
Merzmensch · x · 2026-09-03
On his way to a "Reading/Writing after AI" workshop in Hamburg with Hannes Bajohr and Johannes Franzen, Merzmensch noted that the same station bookshop where he found no AI books six years ago is now full of them — a small marker of how fast AI has saturated mainstream culture.
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