"So if AI detection becomes impossible, we will have to assume humanity just to operate normally. As I mentioned, this is serving me relatively well in editing and marking, I will assume that if something has someone’s name or signature, they wrote it, and they should assume all of the consequences of that text.

For the same reason, I don’t think that any sort of legislative solution will work. The technology is too far ahead to expect any sort of ban. We could probably try to enact legislation that sets the obligation for LLM developers to clearly identify when an AI has been used to generate text, but this would only open the door for models that have been trained in countries without such restrictions to become popular. And then there will probably be AI humanisers that will get rid of such identifiers.

A solution that appears to be emerging in many writing circles is to loudly attack anyone who is using AI text, and to try to gather consensus in the writing professions to loudly oppose any sort of AI use. Writers are now at the stage in which artists were back in 2022, AI is just about to get good enough as to threaten people’s jobs. So there is a bit of a siege mentality emerging, where the first instict will be to punish and ostracise anyone who breaks this code. I’m highly skeptical of this approach as it is likely to lead to witch-hunts, false accusations, purity spirals, and other nasty online behaviour that is not likely to fix the problem.

Eventually, I think that we will find some balance."

https://www.technollama.co.uk/why-are-people-adopting-ai-to-write

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Writing #AcademicPublishing

"Each prior “intelligence explosion” was not an upgrade to individual cognitive hardware, but the emergence of a new, socially aggregated unit of cognition. Primate intelligence scaled with social group size, not habitat difficulty. Human language created what Michael Tomasello calls the “cultural ratchet”: knowledge accumulating across generations without any individual requirement to reconstruct the whole. Writing, law, and bureaucracy externalized social intelligence into infrastructure, institutions that coordinate across longer time horizons than any participant within them. A Sumerian scribe running a grain accounting system did not comprehend its macroeconomic function; the system was functionally more intelligent than he was.

AI extends this sequence. Large language models are trained on the accumulated output of human social cognition—the cultural ratchet made computationally active, every parameter a compressed residue of communicative exchange. What migrates into silicon is not abstract reasoning but social intelligence in externalized form, encountering itself on a new substrate.

If intelligence is inherently social, then the path to more powerful AI runs not through building a single colossal oracle but through composing richer social systems—and these systems will be hybrid. We have entered the era of human-AI centaurs: composite actors that are neither purely human nor purely machine. Centaur actors can take many forms and inhabit many different roles. Each one of us may move in and out of diverse ensembles many times a day: one human directing many AI agents; one AI serving many humans; many humans and many AIs collaborating in shifting configurations."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg1895

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #SocialIntelligence #Centaurs #HumanInTheLoop

I use the ublock AI blocklist myself, but could it be that the models use it themselves to prevent collapsing from being trained on slop? Models need fresh blood and that was the sole purpose of the attempt to make us use that "human made" seal.

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs

Hey, look: It's AI-bashing time, folks!!!

"The study evaluated the impacts of three leading AI systems widely used in 2025: Claude 3.5 Haiku from Anthropic, GPT-5 Mini from OpenAI, and Gemini 2.5 Flash. In initial testing, the researchers found that half of the participants refused to use an LLM at all or only used it to find information rather than generate new content. To better categorize the larger batch of participants, the researchers defined heavy AI users as the participants who said they generated more than 40% of their text written for the experiment with an LLM.

The authors found that users who heavily relied on LLMs submitted essays with 50% fewer pronouns, which was representative of the larger shift toward impersonal language that included fewer anecdotes and references to human experiences."

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-changing-style-substance-human-writing-study-finds-rcna263789

#AI #GenerativeAI #Writing #LLMs

Goodhart’s Law in action 🙄:

“More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.”, The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-ai-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UlA.Wda2.-3Rz1wP8LBVw&smid=url-share).

H/T: Dare Obasanjo

#AI #AITokenUsage #GoodhartsLaw #Metric #TokenMaxing #LLMs #Measure #FakeProductivity #Waste #Dashboard #Leaderboard #Work

Out of all uses of gen ai in moving pictures, these new Christian shorts portraying good old JC saving people by walking on water are, by far, the strangest.

Case in point:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV-FnxPjdEs/?igsh=eWh0bmY5c2JpN2J3

#ai #llms #christiandom

"As part of this, we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad."

Nice to see that all that pushback has worked!

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

#news #TechNews #technology #AI #LLMs #microsoft #windows #enshittification

Re conversations happening in my timeline…

Is being more productive at hastening the end of societal coherence the productivity we want though?

#llms