“Glibness, confidence, a retentive memory enabling its possessor to air easily acquired, sometimes shamelessly pirated, knowledge, can deceive observation at first, but not for long.”

Ernest Dimnet wrote that not about AI chatbots, but about humans. In The Art of Thinking, he urges making time for reflection, being oneself, and finding oneself, to cultivate wiser and more original thought. Once a bestseller, his 1928 book joins the public domain in 20 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown