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Covering online speech, social media and the information wars at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. nytimes.com
The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing theatlantic.com
The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious theatlantic.com
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized theatlantic.com
The Truth About AI’s Water Use theatlantic.com
Someone Finally Wants to Hire Philosophers theatlantic.com
AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing theatlantic.com
Is This What Comes After AI Slop? theatlantic.com
A Twist in This Year’s Strangest Literary AI Scandal - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
Is This What Comes After AI Slop? theatlantic.com
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The Truth About AI’s Water Use - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
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I set out to understand why AIs love negative parallelism. The answer wasn't just surprising—it was illuminating. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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- The Atlantic frames the 'it's not X; it's Y' antithesis as perhaps the best-known and most mysterious tic of AI writing.
- Barron's counted the phrase in Fortune 500 filings jumping from 50 in 2023 to over 200 in 2025, per The Atlantic.
- In one Washington Post dataset the article cites, variations of 'not just X, but Y' appeared in roughly 6% of all July messages.
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I talked to the author of the "Future of Truth" book that turned out to have AI hallucinations. He told me he feels "seduced and betrayed" by ChatGPT, at one point suggesting it might have undermined him on purpose. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Anyway I hope you read the whole piece if you're interested, because it isn't just an explainer—it's a journey. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
I wrote about how the shift to AI search is sparking strange new forms forms of spammy web content as companies try to game the chatbots. Welcome to the era of sloptimization: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Do data centers really use exorbitant amounts of water? The answer is "it depends" in about 10 different ways. (Unlike electricity, to which the answer is an unambiguous "yes.") Here's a lucid and helpful explanation: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... by @matteowong.bsky.soc…
sorry coders...... maybe u should learn to philosophize www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Gift link to my story today on how the rise of AI-assisted writing is blurring the lines between human authorship and slop — and leading some writers to feel pressure to overrely on tools that still have serious, albeit increasingly subtle, flaws. www.theatlantic.com/technolog…
AI-assisted fiction is already here, tons of people are reading it, very few of them realize it, and no one wants to talk about it. Gift link to my latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Gift link to my interview with Jamir Nazir, who won the overall Commonwealth Prize this week after the despite accusations that his short story was AI-written. He believes his name has been cleared. I'm curious what others think after reading this: https://t.co/9TAHXnvGAn
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A lot of people are reading AI-generated fiction without realizing it—"stanning" it on TikTok and Instagram, even—though in fairness a lot of people have been doing the same with what might be considered human-written "slop" as well, for quite some time
Do data centers really use exorbitant amounts of water? The answer is "it depends" in about 10 different ways. (Unlike electricity, to which the answer is an unambiguous "yes.") Here's a lucid and helpful explanation: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... by @matteowong.bsky.soc…
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