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Sara Nelson's new websites are a grim example of what happens when an organization replaces human artistic/design judgment with AI. Let an LLM set the visual defaults for your website, and the results will look like ClaudeSlop™️ guaranteed!

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Former Seattle City Council president launches AI-powered site to track and report on City Hall https://www.geekwire.com/2026/former-seattle-city-council-president-launches-ai-powered-site-to-track-and-report-on-city-hall/

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CivicTide isn't really hers: "It was built by Viet Nguyen, a veteran Seattle tech communications executive who has developed a specialty in building political and civic websites. He used AI to write the whole thing from scratch, including the public site…" Read our takedown of another Nguyen site:

nwprogressive.orgFact-checking Viet Q. Nguyen: "Culliton 2026" website has a faulty premise and inaccurate statements that need revising - NPI's Cascadia AdvocateThe website, which is presented as a voter's guide, tries to predict how Washington Supreme Court candidates might rule on the constitutionality of the state's new million dollar earners tax, but its ...