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AI, write a comment like a pirate with scurvy:

Arrrr ye story is bananas. AI writing be like bilge rats. Time to abandon ship.

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Arrgghhhh I’m the capt m’hearties, I’ll lash meeself to this there mast and go down with me damned vessel! <-I’m a terrible pirate.

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Jan 30, 2023Liked by Stuart McDonald

Some real gems here. Villa Santi as a backpacker hostel. Taking a tuk tuk to Vang Vieng, though, would be first on my list of crack things to do.

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I know right! A big belly laugh when I saw that, but is clearly a no no if you value sustainability!

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About eighteen kinds of wow here. I was recently contacted by someone offering their AI services to generate new content ideas for our newsletter. I politely told them generating ideas wasn't a problem for us at all.

I actually think this bodes well for Substack as I think part of the platform's success has to do with people wanting information they can trust from reliable sources. Now to that we can add they want reliable info from actual people and not AI.

Though I suppose one day, AI will be able to scrape our newsletter and imitate me pretty well.

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Yeah it is quite amazing. With more effort could flesh out a complete guide in an hour or so. In essence it is a fancy copy & paste.

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Exactly.

Please note this comment has been generated by the AI that Michael hired to make all his future comments.

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Jan 30, 2023Liked by Stuart McDonald

This was written without the benefit of AI or indeed any intelligence

Stuart would love to have a read of the Siem Reap to PP train any chance of a link?

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Jan 31, 2023Liked by Stuart McDonald

Thanks good to see the cheapest way from Siem Reap to PP is to fly

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Ha ha haaaaaa

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