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If it quacks like AI, it's probably AI. Or is it? We can never be sure. Read the digest in its entirety: aistop.watch/p/duck-tales

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Can a 180-ton machine the size of a school bus just go missing? Read the rest of the entry:

I don’t know why high school teachers and college professors assign and grade written work to be done outside of class anymore. The AI tools for cheating are too good. Read the rest of Mitch’s experience:

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. And if it sounds like an AI-written short story and gets a score of “100% AI Generated” from Pangram, it was probably written by an AI, even if you might never know for sure. Read the rest:

NPR’s word of the week was “Luddite”, a term often used to refer to someone who hates modern technology and is against progress. You’ve probably heard it in the context of AI, with critics of the AI explosion viewed by some as simply “behind the times”... Read the full dispatch:

The situation with Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models has many asking if we’ve seen all the AI we’re going to see — if models past a certain threshold will never make it to a public release for fear of what they might do in the wrong hands. Read the rest:

The world is absurd. And people are greedy. These are two throughlines from the 1963 film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, in which various factions compete to find a suitcase full of money only to end up in full body casts by the time the credits roll. Read the full entry:

Could AI push us towards a gig economy? A piece in The Guardian today argues “yes.” With companies outsourcing parts of jobs to technology, it’s easier to hire contractors, rather than full timers, for the parts that are left. Read the rest of the entry:

“Move fast and break things” has long been the strategy of the tech industry: Deploy what you can, when you can, and entrench yourself before the government can say whether there should be some ground rules… Read the full dispatch:

A pair of articles today — one in the New York Times, the other in Bloomberg — declare that the “tokenmaxxing” era has officially ended. They aren’t the first. Read the full entry: