Hey ChatGPT, take the other 394 week ahead articles it feels like I’ve written on tariffs this year, move the words around, insert a few pithy jokes and replace any references to 9 July to 1 August. Nobody will ever know… Sure, says ChatGPT, but in customary AI fashion, let me start by offering some grand-but-bland platitudes on the nobility of your recent articles, and allow me to provide my utmost but not-at-all genuine congratulations on presenting me with such a groundbreaking idea… (why does AI do this, by the way?) Obviously, I didn’t actually ask AI to write this (it would say that, though, wouldn’t it?). But ... (full story)