My relationship with AI is changing - by Stephen D. Turner

kept by solarisv sep 29

Stephen Turner says AI-generated slop is flooding writing and academia, and that outsourcing writing to AI atrophies the judgment and creativity that give work its value.

The Bitter Lesson
Over 70 years of AI research, methods that scale with computation—search and learning—consistently beat approaches that encode human knowledge, despite short-term gains from the latter.
also on DARPA, #generative-ai
We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
Prediction markets are crypto-anarchist tools that financially incentivize harm, enable insider manipulation, and will grow worse as they tokenize real-world assets.
also on DARPA
I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write
The author argues AI-generated writing lacks context and humanity, making it unreadable, and advocates using AI only as a verification aid while valuing authentic human writing.
also on Pangram, #generative-ai, #productivity
How Claude's text watermarking works \ Anthropic
Anthropic explains that upcoming Claude models will embed an undetectable, EU‑mandated watermark that does not affect output quality and can be used to estimate AI involvement.
also on Pangram, #generative-ai
The For You page is killing Social - by Nic Carter
X's algorithmic For You page optimizes for time spent over creator-follower linkage, driving creators to platforms like Substack for reliable reach.
also on Substack, #internet-culture