Incredible www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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Will Oremus
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
AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing theatlantic.com
Someone Finally Wants to Hire Philosophers theatlantic.com
AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing theatlantic.com
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized theatlantic.com
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized theatlantic.com
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized theatlantic.com
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Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized theatlantic.com
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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...
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…
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...
Shopify's website has 60 different "10 best products for X in 2026" lists — and they all rank Shopify #1. Clickup says hold my beer: It has almost *300* such lists. Gift link to my story today about the strange new ways people are gaming AI search results: www.theatlantic.com/…
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Shopify has published at least 60 rankings of the best e-commerce sites—all of which have Shopify as the top pick. Why? It's seemingly an attempt to game AI search tools. Great one by @willoremus.com on the dark arts of search engine sloptimization www.theatlantic.com/technolo…
“However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI.” open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...
“However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI.” open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...
Sorry for the typo but at least I'm not an AI! Here's a gift link to my latest for @theatlantic.com on how the web is now being written not just by machines but also for machines. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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