Man Who Spent Years Writing About Tech’s Empty Promises Shocked to Discover His Own Newsletter Is Just Tech’s Empty Promises With a Beard
AITA for pointing out that Nick Bilton’s latest viral essay on “why no one reads anymore” is literally just a 3,000-word fluff piece optimized for Google SEO, complete with a quote from a “reliable source” that’s just his own twitter thread from 2014? TL;DR: The guy built a career calling out Silicon Valley’s hype machine, only to launch a newsletter that’s basically “I asked ChatGPT to write a hot take about AI, and then I added a paragraph about my dog.” No shade, but maybe the real algorithm was the friends we made along the way—who are all bots.