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Elizabeth Lopatto
“We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.”

The era of the LLM means you now have to figure out whether you are talking to another person — or just some bot. There’s one sci-fi author who focused on just that.

The PKD Dystopia

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