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some of the subtler elements of AI writing are most easily seen in copyedits: - "provide" turning into "aim to enhance student success by providing" (injecting promotional slop and turning it into a participial) - blandifying by turning "risky" to "harmful" (which also subtly changes the meaning)

Paragraph written without AI: School-based prevention programs provide school-wide education, skills training and supports intended to improve student success in school by teaching interpersonal and communication skills, increasing self-awareness, and reducing risk factors that lead to risky behaviors.

An AI rewrite of a paragraph that inserts slop like the phrase aim to enhance

relatedly, this is an absolutely hilarious press release "While specific details about our history and unique offerings are limited in publicly available sources, our commitment to excellence drives us." www.workventure.com/company/mce-...

workventure.com

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2w ago

new Randi Prize: $1000 to anyone who can produce an example of a paper they wrote in high school, prior to 2023, containing a sentence like "Comprehensive biographical details, assessments of impact, or documentation of major individual achievements remain limited in publicly available sources."

Seeing a simpler version of this in people's ability to detect AI writing: people who can clock ChatGPT tone are getting eaten alive by Claudeslop because they never talked to Claude and can't hone in on it the same way (and it's much more convincing and compelling than they think AI can be).

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2w ago

the way they get you is that it's not a trick. more data really does make it better. all your chats, email, records, documents. this is why it's such a mistake to focus on the errors they make this week. you need an argument that's persuasive even if it works, because it absolutely will work

Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2w ago

I guess "catch a 5th grader using :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}" was a bit hard to fit into the ad space

oh come on

Catch a 5th grader using an em dash.
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Wiki Education @wikieducation.bsky.social · 3w ago

commentariat: "AI writing just sounds like good writing! do you just hate good writing?" AI writing: "A 2025 City of Mississauga report about parking-related zoning amendments lists Westdale Mall among several properties proposed for a "Retail Centre" definition in the city's zoning by-law."

Our latest data shows that the percentage of our participants' Wikipedia articles flagged as being written by AI has decreased since we began interventions in mid-2025. Explore how we handle generative AI usage, why verifiability remains a top concern, and what comes next: wp.me/p4LBez-XMK

Generative AI and Wikipedia: The last six months

In January, Wiki Education published a widely read blog post about our experiences with Wikipedia editing and generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. It sparked lots of co…

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a wiki editor @aionwikipedia.bsky.social · 3w ago

what people sound like when they say they don't want to write/code/whatever without ai youtu.be/gWGTehbT2LQ?...

I have to have my Tools (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia)

YouTube video by bloodsploosh

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Mark Sample@samplereality.bsky.social · 4w ago

isn't it wonderful to live in a world where you can actually check stuff rather than making glib assumptions

Pretty sure if you ran White Noise through an AI checker, it'd be flagged as AI-generated. DeLillo didn't invent staccato compound noun phrases or liberal use of words like "humming" or "fluorescent" (try John Dos Passos)—but he surely influenced the training data.

John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 4w ago

The AI industry is prone to massive, frequent, and intensifying narrative mood swings. Part of this is typical of a boom. But I think it's also intrinsic to the tech itself nymag.com/intelligence...

There are plenty of reasons for this pattern. We're going through a massive investment cycle in a new technology, which understandably produces questions about bubbles, polarizes the economic discourse, and invites trader-brained, boom-or-bust interpretations of new developments. The economic stakes are now unavoidably high, and whatever happens is genuinely everyone's problem. Relatedly, while there's plenty of coverage of Al that tracks and contributes to these swings, the dominant mood of the industry - up to and including the communicative styles of AI CEOs
— is substantially determined in the tech hothouse of
X, where it's happening and nothing ever happens appear to be the only available positions, or at least the only ones that get engagement. At the same time, fears of job loss, talk of automation, the visibility of obvious externalities like slop content and cheating in school, and emerging worries about data-center construction have given tech's latest investment cycle an unusually powerful ethical and political dimension and turned the potential success or failure of the broadly defined object of AI into mainstream rooting interests.

For one, despite its obsession with forecasts and timelines, this is an industry without a good predictive theory of what its product will soon be good at. It wouldn't be unfair to say that the industry's actual approach to figuring out where things are going is to train a model and see, which gives AI researchers, and their companies, a genuinely unusual relationship to their products: They're building them, sure, but they experience their actual capabilities
- like a sudden aptitude for advanced math after a long stretch of profound innumeracy — as something similar to discoveries. This was clear in the way that Anthropic talked about the cybersecurity capabilities of Mythos as a strange, emergent phenomenon of training general-purpose models. (Contrast that with the development cycle in the nearby and similarly high-stakes semiconductor industry, for example, where swings in sentiment are comparatively mild or at least further apart.)

The AI Fermi Paradox: If "humans can write like this", then why haven't they? blog.aionwikipedia.com/ai-fermi-par...

The AI Fermi Paradox: If "humans can write like this", then why haven't they?

Whenever I hear someone argue that it's impossible to detect AI-generated writing because "AI is just copying human writing" -- a disproven myth, by the way ...

blog.aionwikipedia.com

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

this can happen in even subtler ways. example: someone's "Grammatical fixes throughout the article and rephrasing the article to have a more neutral and clear tone" (later confirmed as AI) changed the text "[name] did not support Donald Trump" to "[name] withdrew her support for Donald Trump"

AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds

Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼@bonabooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

interesting report but kind of lays bare how differently AI presents in different contexts, e.g., fictional manuscripts vs. nonfiction; a lot of the stuff that indicates AI usage here doesn't apply outside the fiction world (and vice versa)

We're mainly sharing the link to the rather more digestible blog post, but if you want to jump to the straight our AI report:

a wiki editor @aionwikipedia.bsky.social · last mo.

directionally correct, but could they have picked a different dude

my ai compass test results, pretty much at 1, negative 5, labeled The Skeptic, named after someone I wouldn't be surprised to learn searches their name, with the description: It's oversold, it's losing staggering amounts of money, and the harms are arriving faster than the value. You've done the math on the unit economics and it doesn't close. You are loud about this, prolific about this, and you suspect history will vindicate you.

semi professional windmill tilter@thespianrex.bsky.social · last mo.

bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/ Neat

Harper's Bazaar has apparently joined Granta in pronouncing what appears to be an AI-generated short story the winner of its 2026 Short Story Competition:

Nabeel S. Qureshi on Substack: Another apparently AI-generated story wins a literary prize, this time judged by a panel including the novelist Ruth Ozeki.

Literary prizes need to start including Pangram checks in their process, or else change the rules to make AI writing ok. It’s very simple!

Maria Bustillos@mariabustillos.com · 2mo ago

putting AI summaries on articles in The New Yorker is just such a spectacular misunderstanding of who reads the publication

what is this

headline and summary of a New Yorker story with 'This summary is AI-generated' underneath, and it also says 'Learn More' but if you click on that you do not in fact Learn any More.

read the study behind the "it's really easy to manipulate AI with tiny Wikipedia edits" and the wiki angle here is a little overstated; this particular attack sticks out a lot more in a wiki article than, say, a reddit thread asking for recommendations, and gets zapped fast arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24245

arxiv.org

fun fact about Grokipedia: edits will get declined due (supposedly) to its language cutoff, which turns out to be a problem for a real-time encyclopedia

Grok output from Grokipedia, generated on April 4, 2026, declining an edit request to add information about the 2026 Iran War because it isn't 2026 yet

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

compared to real events this is a euphorically good dream www.wired.com/story/i-work...

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

wired.com

I dreamt of humans getting together and writing hand written human content in secret internet gapped monastaries and selling it to the ai giants for huge sums of money as novel training sets to fund their cave cities

Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 2mo ago

new blog post: the dumbest shit I could find in leaked grokipedia prompts aionwikipedia.bearblog.dev/the-dumbest-...

the dumbest shit I could find in leaked grokipedia prompts

Remember how Grokipedia occasionally leaks its own prompts and reasoning in the article text? Well, it ain't occasional anymore. Grokipedia has now fi...

aionwikipedia.bearblog.dev

somehow grokipedia has managed to make the bug where it freaks out about citing wikipedia even worse

grokipedia article excerpt, which contains stuff like "Wait, can't cite wiki, but since it's the only one mentioning, but no. That's it, as no more verified details on childhood exposure beyond that. To make it flow. Since the outline allows any verified early family context, and this is it."

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

was at the venice biennale a week ago, and I don’t know what direction the influence is flowing here (or if there even is an influence) but a lot of the pavilions were centered around the same tropes of humming, breaths, etc that stereotypically AI fiction gravitates toward

here's a thread of invisible comments left in articles by wikipedia editors!!!

if you're going to post on bluesky complaining about how an AI detector flagged your writing as AI, then you probably should make sure that you're not on record talking about how you use AI for writing www.techdirt.com/2024/04/29/h...

How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It’s Not Writing Articles)

Let’s start off this post by noting that I know that some people hate anything and everything having to do with generative AI and insist that there are no acceptable uses of it. If that describes y…

techdirt.com

today in weird crap old LLMs got up to: a 2024-era wikipedia spammer discussing "perplexity in home insurance" and "burstiness of claims processing" en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Sam Biddle@sambiddle.com · 2mo ago

I often wonder why the clear difference in ai-generated text after gpt-5 hasn’t fully materialized in the world, where you still get a lot of immediately recognizable old school slop like this

NEW: I've uncovered an AI slop mill quietly backed by U.S. Special Operations to push military propaganda across Latin American and the Caribbean disguised as a lifestyle content brand. theintercept.com/2026/06/02/l...