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Vlad Tarko <[log in to unmask]>
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Societies for the History of Economics <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 5 Dec 2022 13:19:49 -0700
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That's interesting. I found one of these books with actual reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/SUMMARY-CHIP-WAR-Critical-Technology/dp/B0BHBTL7K1/

*1.0 out of 5 stars* Absolute Rubbish
Please do not waste your time reading this. The author certainly didn't. So
riven with typos and nonsensical sentences that it is unreadable. Looks
computer generated...by a 1980's computer. I love the concept of saving me
time but this is worthless. A schoolgirl would receive a failing grade on
this book summary.

*1.0 out of 5 stars* Terribly written. Almost unreadable.
Giant font and ridiculously bad syntax. I was left with the impression that
this summary was written by either a foreigner or a computer.
I tried to save time by picking up a summary, but now I still feel like I
need to read the book.
Just awful.


On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 1:02 PM Bruce Caldwell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear SHOE-listers,
> I am writing to inform you of a very strange experience I just had. *Hayek:
> A Life*,  the Hayek biography that Hansjoerg Klausinger and I wrote, just
> appeared in late November. Less than a week later a friend told me he had
> purchased a summary of the book on Amazon. I knew of no summary, so he sent
> me a link. It was supposedly by a person identified as “Shirley
> Luckhurst.”  I clicked on her name and apparently Ms. Luckhurst was
> producing many such summaries of books recently published. I figured it was
> some shop somewhere employing many condensers and operating under a
> pseudonym, but the story turns out to be even better. Our editor at U
> Chicago Press said it was done by AI. Yikes! My mind was blown, as we used
> to say.
> Anyway, I thought I would alert book authors out there that this sort of
> thing exists, in case you get queries from potential book buyers. And no, I
> did not check out to see how good the AI summary was!
> Bruce
>
> Bruce Caldwell
> Research Professor of Economics
> Director, Center for the History of Political Economy
>
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> discover one has often taken days." Edwin Cannan, on editing  Smith's
> Wealth of Nations
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