These regurgitate AI prompts are part of what is being pointed at as being the very problem.

Imho the book is more nuanced in that it’s trying to point out that we don’t really understand ourselves, culture, history or background much anymore because we want to criticize so much without taking a real stance on anything. We cannot actually understand who we are without a deeper sense of introspection, reflection and questioning that is a messy, convoluted, and difficult process.

I think individuals like Karp, Thiel, Altman, and Musk all are easily made into characters of themselves when they tend to have deeper and more important messages they are trying to convey, but they usually need to be sought out and read in a detailed way that allow for what in between the lines to be well understood. Most forms of media outside of their own books and writings contort the ways that they are understood in shallow and misguided ways.