(a) the press implying 10 minutes of AI use will erode thinking is really misrepresenting our study and we never advocate for that lanaguage. It is not the author’s fault that the press is doing weird writeups about our study which we don’t endorse!
Oct 11, 2026 at 9:42 PM
AI and the crisis of the author
Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the
Illicit Use of AI by Philosophers Refereeing for Journals - Daily Nous
In 2024, a study found that “7–17% of the sentences in the reviews [of computer science manuscripts] were written by LLMs”. It was only a […]
233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper
This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.
How to write well with AI
Why people who pledge never to write with AI are telling on themselves
Don't Write Like AI (1 of 101): "It's Not X, it's Y"
The #1 AI writing tell and a daily annoyance of millions.
The Breath of the Author
The palpable presence of someone else's mind in our best writing should give us pause about the encroachment of AI text
What it means that the AI research community can't quit twitter - rl-blogging
Some quickly jotted thoughts working through the implications
AI is now unpopular. That may not make a difference.
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times
She was accused of publishing AI slop in The New York Times. She says she didn't use AI to generate content — but did use AI to get published.
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Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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Humans, however flawed, are
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This applies to those who use AI to write and those who don’t
trying to articulate what i hate about "AI writing"
dan
so it's like if we imagine a normal distribution but then we set super intense resonance at exactly the middle point. that's how it feels to be surrounded by AI writing every day. it's average *without* the normal distribution — just extreme dose of narrow average. this is what pushes my buttons
