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Mastodon user advises avoiding books with specific title patterns

A user on Mastodon shared a heuristic for identifying books that may contain fabricated quotes. The user suggests avoiding books with titles that follow a specific template, implying these titles are indicative of potentially unreliable content. AI

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    "Most writers manage to include zero made-up quotes when they write a book" I have a heuristic that I ignore any # books with titles that follow the template of

    "Most writers manage to include zero made-up quotes when they write a book" I have a heuristic that I ignore any # books with titles that follow the template of two words/sentences separated by a colon (like in this case). Hasn't failed me so far 🤷‍♂️ # AI https:// arstechnica.co…