Where’s The Intelligence?
Never mind the beef.
Correct me if I’m hallucinating, but have we really now developed AI-detection software capable of identifying everything as AI-generated?
It’s just — how crazy are we?
AI’s going to transform our lives, very exciting, blah, blah, says everybody, and then all of a sudden — oh no! — an author’s actually used AI. Cancel! Cancel! shouts everybody.
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[Here’s another em dash, by the way — if you’re counting.]
AI’s been about to transform our lives for nigh-on a decade now, I think. I remember going to fintech conferences and being told that AI was very exciting, oh, years ago. Quantum computing was also very exciting back then, if I remember rightly.
They’ve spent so much. They have to get us to want it that much.
But we don’t.
Oops.




