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Open Thread

AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness 

The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one

Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?