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Published · transcript-backedBen Thompson: preference
12 Feb 2026 Cheeky Pint Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
“Yeah, I mean it's silly to try to crush it out. I'm very opposed to these AI detectors because they don't work.”
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- Ben Thompson
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- preference
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…Great. How should schools do homework now that AI exists? I think they should incorporate it and they should probably do in-person exams. Yeah, I mean it's silly to try to crush it out. I'm very opposed to these AI detectors because they don't work. I mean, probably I'm particularly sensitive to it because obviously a lot of my prose is in these models. My thing was I wasn't an em dash user, but I'm the world's biggest semicolon user. I was a big em dash user all along.…
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