YES!! Thanks for saying that. I believe it really firmly!

if you use the contact form on my website it will come directly to me! Or signal — my details in bio.

I wrote about how the winner of another major literary prize appears to be AI and why we need to do something about all this. 😢

I'm really annoyed by my repetition of the word "fascinating" in my last two posts.

Yeah, I saw that note in the study, and it makes sense! I'd be curious to know (including if there's any research you can point me to) whether the underlying finding of AI being more persuasive still holds — like, whether, as there's more exposure to it, it's becoming less effective at persuasion?

I remember coming across that essay! I suspected the AI use early on and then skimmed the rest to see if there was a disclosure — and when there was, I didn't bother to read it ... I mention this because I think it's the point you were hoping to make with the gesture, in a sort of meta way.

I inadvertently kinda ripped it off for the ending of one of my stories and when a journal editor pointed it out I let her take it out but then I put it back in for my book 🤪

Best last line too

Here's the paper that accompanies the demo. The researchers find that IdeaLens can fairly accurately flag (when Pangram can't) stories that are written by people based on "AI-generated plans."

I checked an essay my dad wrote and had ChatGPT significantly edit. Pangram calls it 100% AI or AI-assisted. IdeaLens calls the prose 98% likely to have been AI-generated but gives the ideas just a 19% chance of having been AI-generated.

This is a really fascinating research demo, from the lab of Mohit Iyyer at the University of Maryland: It predicts the likelihood that the ideas contained in a piece of text are AI-generated versus human-generated. A couple of examples in this thread.

ok looks like we need to hear from octavia butler again. tl;dr: actually no one sees the future

This isn't just a think piece saying they disagree with PEN America; they actually went back and examined at the data and reporting — including a key claim that a literary agent was selling far fewer books by Jewish and Israeli authors in the US — and found it lacking. Fascinating work.

What about Look2Justice? It’s a Washington-based org run by incarcerated writers and organizers.

Thanks for sharing all this. I haven't looked closely at the company since last year, and, yeah, my recent quick check was for 2Hr Learning rather than Legacy of Education (which had been doing business as Alpha) itself. I updated my recent post to reflect that — I should have been more precise.