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Some I’d deleted without recording. Some had been auto-deleted from spam after thirty days. Some I’d forgotten about before I started keeping systematic track.
I wasn’t being marketed to. I was being carpet-bombed.

Three in a row directly followed by a juxtaposition containing a weird metaphor (shouldn't it be "bombarded" instead of "carpet-bombed"?)

Good luck selling books.

“No …, no …, just …”

And more AI-isms. I think we finally found ground zero: the original author whose work was used to train the LLMs.

In footer they admit to "Greene used Claude (Anthropic) as a tool for structure, data organization, and feedback"

presumably it stands for "I asked LLM to write it for me"

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