Mollick: Bots Read All Human Literature, So Replies Are Better but Still Annoying
emollick · x · 2026-09-19
Ethan Mollick complains that bots know who Benjamin is because they've read all of human literature, making replies technically higher quality but no less annoying: "If I want Gemma 27B's opinion I'll ask it myself."
In the quoted post he adds a funny/tragic/apt observation: the second sentence of a 1935 essay ("This does not diminish its importance, however; if anything, it underlines it") reads to him as if written by Claude, further fading the work's aura.
Related event: Mollick: Stop asking whether AI films are art(3 posts)→
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