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[–] [email protected] 39 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

What bothers me about this is that the author fraudulently presented the book as her own work. Doesn't matter to me if she used AI or hired a ghost writer - claiming you wrote something you didn't write is fraud IMO. I've never understood how ghost writers are legal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Tony Schwartz, ghost-writer of The Art of the Deal, who spent hundreds of hours with Trump, has called him, "the worst human being we've seen in a long while: no values, no beliefs, not a single charming redeeming quality."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

or hired a ghost writer

Isn't that the entire point of hiring a ghost writer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Their goddamn ghosts maaaaaihn

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