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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
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The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing theatlantic.com
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The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious theatlantic.com
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized theatlantic.com
Mark Zuckerberg’s Convenient Truth theatlantic.com
The Truth About AI’s Water Use theatlantic.com
SCOOP: Long Before His Book Scandal, Steven Rosenbaum Faced Accusations of AI Fabulism on Wikipedia shootingthemessenger.blog
Someone Finally Wants to Hire Philosophers theatlantic.com
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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...
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…
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...
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…
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...
Heartbreaking: Mark Zuckerberg just made a great point 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…
Steven Rosenbaum, the author whose "Future of Truth" book was riddled with AI-generated falsehoods, had already been caught using AI to write inaccurate and self-serving Wikipedia pages and edits, @deansterlingjones.bsky.social reports: shootingthemessenger.blog/2026/07/30/s...
sorry coders...... maybe u should learn to philosophize www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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