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Don't read any books written post-2024

A user on Hacker News argued that all written content produced after 2024 has been contaminated by "GPTisms," claiming that even authors who do not directly use AI have been indirectly influenced by it. The user recommended that people only consume content created before 2000 to preserve originality and avoid what they called "semantic ablation." The post warned that without this measure, readers risk training their cognitive abilities toward an AI-compressed worldview.

read1 min publishedMay 29, 2026

All written content post 2024 has been directly or indirectly affected by GPTisms.

Even if authors claim they don’t even know about AI (liars), they surely have conversed with people who use it or read a news article once that 100000% was ran thru a gpt.

Therefore the authors cognitive worldcloud has been indirectly compacted in a very insidious way due to pluribus tier exposure.

This is semantic ablation (somone made up this term: is good).

Only cure is consuming genuine human content created strictly before 2024. Preferably before 2000 when internet became a thing.

This way you will train your language related synapses to venture further away for LLM worldcloud concentration and steer yourself into originality which is the only thing that will matter in future earth ridden with NPCs, where every cognitive and physical effort has been replaced by the machines.

Actually, don’t consume any content made post-2024 period.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319607](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319607)

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