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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
There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet 404media.co
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Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier darioamodei.com
AI-detection tools have made huge leaps forward — how good are they? nature.com
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Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It? wired.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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AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/the…
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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...
the thing that's being criticized here is literally a call for regulation and restraint darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
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...
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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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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 kept reading this article excitedly waiting for it to deliver the goods on why we can't trust Pangram and it turned out to be mostly that the founder seemed socially awkward? www.wired.com/story/pangra...
Weird, this in-depth profile of Pangram doesn't focus at all on its founder's suspicious burping and food-microwaving habits. Instead there's just a bunch of stuff about how they built it, how it works, whether it works and why it matters https://t.co/xYfCckdjqe
Weird, this in-depth profile of Pangram doesn't focus at all on its founder's suspicious burping and food-microwaving habits. Instead there's just a bunch of stuff about how they built it, how it works, whether it works and why it matters www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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…
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Watching the Apple launch event and I thought this was interesting: a feature called Apple Reference Image makes an unalterable original version of each pic you take, so you can prove it was real and what it actually captured if AI fakes start circulating
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
getting very into semicolons solely because AI doesn't use them
Talking on WNYC's Brian Lehrer show rn about AI fears, Anthropic/OpenAI's calls for slowing down, and Trump/Nvidia's counter-calls for putting pedal to metal
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