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Nick Rogers
From the journal — 5 pieces by this author
- July2026
- 12minJuly 31The Machine
A Very Expensive Mirror That Always Agrees With You
We spent years teaching artificial intelligence to give us answers we'd like — and now we really don't like the result.
By Nick Rogers
- 11minJuly 2The Craft
Can AI Write a Book for You? Yes, But You're Going to Regret It
An AI model can genuinely generate grammatically clean text at any length — but the prose will be terrible, and along with it you'll get plot amnesia, cardboard characters, impostor syndrome, and a whole host of other problems.
By Nick Rogers
- June2026
- 7minJune 17The Machine
The Fact-Checking Ceiling: Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini, and Why No AI Cleared 70% Truth in 2026
Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini have become working tools in journalism, providing drafts and research as well as fact-checking quotes. The question of whether to use them no longer stands. A new one has replaced it: where and how each model lies.
By Nick Rogers
- May2026
- 9minMay 27The Stack
AI Wants Your Pension: How Larry Fink and BlackRock Plan to Spend Trillions from Your Pocket
G7 governments are drowning in debt, power grids are buckling, and data centers are consuming electricity on an industrial scale. The world's largest investment firm says the solution is taking the money from people who saved it for retirement — you. We break down how the scheme works, who profits from it, and what happens to your savings when the next bubble bursts
By Nick Rogers
- 10minMay 26The Stack
The End of the Link Era
The Raw Story vs. OpenAI case, SearchGPT, and why it's not journalism losing the AI search game — it's journalism's basement
By Nick Rogers
