Today, I share my interview with a living legend, and a personal idol of mine. He's been around for ages, and while he's been showing up on camera for longer than I've been alive, he's never given an interview before. This is my interview with the Polo Bear.
In my latest Locus Magazine column, "Plausible Sentence Generators," I describe how I unwittingly came to use - and even be impressed by - an AI chatbot - and what this means for a specialized, highly salient form of writing, namely, "bullshit":
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:
Now, I'm not a lawyer, but I have worked for a campaigning law-firm for over 20 years, and I've spent the same amount of time writing about the sins of the rich and powerful. I've seen a lot of threats, both those received by our clients and sent to me.
I've been threatened by everyone from #GwynethPaltrow to #RalphLauren to the #Sacklers. I've been threatened by lawyers representing the billionaire who owned #NSOGroup, the notoroious cyber arms-dealer.