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Plus, meat proxies, model fatigue, and "The Economist" and "Every" on AI writing and editing
Plus: Pangram false positives, AI social engineering, and why context matters.
They’re influencing publishing deals, appearing on Substack, and producing results I still don’t trust.
Plus, a big AI-fiction study, a Sol review, and a huge leap in open-source AI.
How one change turned a week-long task into a 39-hour background job.
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
