Over the weekend, I did an interview about my forthcoming book *The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI* (a book about being a better AI critic), and the interviewer said she was surprised that I wasn't an AI booster, based on my demographics and work history:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/15/vernacular/#hypercardian

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@pluralistic Pretty much all of your work makes it obvious you're not a stochastic parrot's fanboy… I'm confused what is surprising at all, based on your work history, about you criticizing artificial BS…

Or does this interviewer just assumes anyone talking about computers should be pro generative slop? 🤔