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Many AI models were trained on the text of books, but a new test found at least one model has directly memorised nearly the ...

For Mir and Garfinkle, America’s reversion to “orality” underlies much of today’s political dysfunction. In their telling, ...

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Spirited (and gossipy) letters and manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum puncture myths about the writer’s rise to literary fame.