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by sscaryterry 31 days ago
Is this for real?
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yes but it's an optional limited edition run
And only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency.
For the moment, anyway.
The passport is real, this style of book will be a limited-edition option when you renew.

The article, though, is AI slop.

The author is a macro economy writer with a 10 years old Twitter account. Most of the article is a quote, then his personal opinion. https://mishtalk.com/about/ I'm all for calling out automated content written by AI/LLM but this one doesn't seem to be.
> Most of the article is a quote

The quote absolutely reads like AI slop.

Its entirely possible they still used some sort of AI to either transcript or edit their content tho, even if personally dictated by them etc. At which point slop becomes human authorship depends on your POV i guess
That’s not what “AI slop” means and I’m confident you know that.
Yeah, it might be not AI Slop, what I was trying to confer, it's using the hallmarks of AI like the em-dashes etc, and yes i know "Good writing" contained this much before AI was trained on it, i guess i just meant to say i can see why someone at first sight could get confused on if its AI or not memerely due to formatting. But yeah, that's not "Slop"