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Will Oremus

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Covering online speech, social media and the information wars at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky. Signal: willoremus.24
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A glut of AI-written fiction is drowning out human authors, new research shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 363 ↻ 130 ↩ 18 · 4 from the directory shared this · 40d ago

For anyone interested in a less juicy (zero burps) but more evidence-based assessment of Pangram's workings and accuracy, I highly recommend this @nature.com piece by @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social & @richvn.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI-detection tools have made huge leaps forward — how good are they? nature.com
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  • NeurIPS rejected 18% of submissions to one of its tracks in June after screening them with the AI detector Pangram.
  • Pangram's technical paper reports a 0.0041% false-positive rate on English texts, with similar rates across more than 100 languages.
  • But Pangram still labels heavily AI-edited human student essays as fully human 41% of the time, per its own tests.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 16 ↻ 3 ↩ 0 · 4 from the directory shared this · 4d ago

People have real qualms with AI detectors, and so do I, but the evidence is mounting that Pangram in particular very rarely gets it wrong (especially on longer chunks of text, but increasingly even on short ones). @brianx.bsky.social tested it and it didn't miss: www.nytimes.c…

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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...

The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
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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...

AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing theatlantic.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 237 ↻ 50 ↩ 36 · 3 from the directory shared this · 107d ago

AI detectors rightly got a bad rap because they got it wrong often enough to be worse than useless — actively harmful. Pangram has a different algorithm that by all accounts simply works much better. I'd still be wary of basing an accusation on Pangram alone, but... www.nytime…

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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…

The Truth About AI’s Water Use theatlantic.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 31 ↻ 4 ↩ 2 · 3 from the directory shared this · 52d ago
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A Wall Street Journal op-ed bylined by a hedge fund billionaire was flagged by Pangram as AI-written. The author admitted it, and now it seems the WSJ is standing by him. Per reports by @jeffstein.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social

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getting very into semicolons solely because AI doesn't use them

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