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White Mirror: AI and the Death of the Literary-Intellectual Complex

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Nowick Gray
Jun 18, 2026
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It’s always tempting, but this is not going to be another one of my anti-AI rants. Rather, its about what I realized behind the visceral aversion I have to AI prose, when it came disguised as praise for one of my books of essays—titled, coincidentally enough, Talking Spirit.

I get one of these promo pitches every day. Sometimes they don’t even bother to …

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