CEOs are reading fewer books because of AI—and it’s starting to worry them

Good morning. What’s your take on AI slop? I now get multiple AI-generated PR pitches every day. The format is comically uniform, from the greeting to the bullet-point topics, and I think it’s a disservice to the person being pitched. We all crave that human touch. More than 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s “seems like AI slop” button , and Graphite reports that AI now generates more online articles than humans do. The explosion of AI-written content is sparking debates over how to handle op-eds like the one that investor Stan Druckenmiller wrote for the Wall Street Journal using AI, which sparked a response from his editor, and much debate about what’s appropriate. ( My take , with strong caveats, is that editors are to blame if a piece feels manufactured, predictable, and devoid of personality. He worries less about slop than fraud, as he’s seeing a lot of AI-generated books created on the spot to capitalize on search trends. “There’s a lot of garbage content being created to trick people into buying it; I don’t think Amazon is doing a good enough job of protecting their customers from that,” he told me. “We want human beings to recommend books to other human beings. Tim Cook became Apple’s executive chair after John Ternus succeeded him as CEO, with a $2 million annual salary and a $45 million target-value equity award. India’s NIFTY 50 was down 0.17%.