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Plus, an AI phone call and how AI detection works
Fabricated quotes, false AI accusations, and fake doctors — a week of people trusting and distrusting AI for all the wrong reasons.
Plus: robots in Japan controlled by workers in the Philippines, and why Anthropic blames evil AI fiction for Claude's bad behavior.
Plus: AI fog, author scam warnings, Codex in Chrome, and a publishing conference.
Plus: AI detectors flag a novelist's work as 100% AI (it wasn't)
A 12-hour road trip, a wild podcast, and a big takeaway
Video-to-spreadsheet tricks, the grow-vs-cut debate, and why no one is immune to AI influence
This week: AI novels, “cognitive surrender,” and the messy question of what readers actually want.
There was a lot of doom to talk about this week
There's been a dramatic vibe shift in Silicon Valley in the last few months
They told me it couldn't be done, that it was too expensive ...
And it's not just for coders
