The literary world isn’t prepared for AI by Gaby Del Valle

None of this, however, explains the uncanny quality of AI-generated work, or what distinguishes bad LLM-produced prose from bad human writing. When I ran Nazir’s story through Pangram, an AI- and plagiarism-detection software, it came back as 100 percent AI-generated. According to Pangram, the most obvious tells were Nazir’s use of triads; the word “stubborn,” which is six times as likely to appear in AI-generated text than that made by humans; and the phrase “as if it had,” whose appearance is five times as likely. But here we have another list of three, written by me, a human.

They run their own writing through Pangram, and it came back as human written. But these tools are not deterministic. You can’t say for sure, that’s the point.

I for example am almost afraid to use em-dashes anymore, lest it be determined that AI wrote these words. It did not.

But it is an exciting time for sure. I read a piece yesterday comparing the SaaS industry to the Music industry, and how the SaaS disruption had already happened to the Music industry. The main point was how music creators are content creators now, who create content with music.

I think a similar point exists for writing as well. It’s all trust. And also, what’s the point. Writing does many things including clearing up your thoughts, if AI does it, you don’t get any benefits.

Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle by Ed Zitron

That’s $15 billion a year in compute costs, but reduced to an indeterminately-discounted level for the precise months that Anthropic is using to tell investors and the media that it has an operating profit. That operating profit is a result of accountancy rather than any improvements to its business model.

It just does not feel right reading this. The unit economics would never let them turn profitable. Or so it seems. The costs will increase linearly with revenue.

Whenever I read about these companies I always think back to a novel I had read in the Foundation series, where they talk about a technology which was awesome but the costs never made sense. So there’s one working artifact in the entire place and that’s it.

This feels similar. Maybe this side of the business will always run at cost or at loss and they are all looking for people to pay them more of other ways for people to pay them money.

Gemini will use Volvo’s external cameras to interpret parking signs by Andrew J. Hawkins

Gemini is gaining the power of sight and mobility. Today at the I/O conference, Google and Volvo announced that the AI-powered assistant will be able to access external cameras in the upcoming EX60 SUV to help explain and interpret its surroundings to vehicle owners. The upgrade is possible thanks to Volvo’s use of Google’s embedded Android Automotive as its vehicle operating system.

This will be a useful feature. I find myself using Claude to interpret the signs all the time. It would be a better experience if you get it in the car directly.