Both AI and non-AI. To clarify my position, I don’t trust machine translation (based on Japanese-to-English and vice versa, but especially the former) and believe it should be reserved for personal use only and definitely not anything public-facing by a company/government/etc. that should have the budget to hire a translator.
Google's AI translation tool seems to have invented its own language | World Economic Forum
Google's Neural Machine Translation system appears to have created its own language.
Kagi Translate
Kagi Translate uses powerful AI models to instantly and accurately translate any content in any language.
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
In my work at Clay I recently wrote an internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers, and I’m sharing it here. It’s my hope that one day better AI tools might be able to help us think, but until then I fear that using AI to write does the exact opposite.
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
The Thoughts The Civilized Keep
The hype around a new AI language generator reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking on AI today — and indeed on how we think about thinking itself.
Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023
2023 was the breakthrough year for Large Language Models (LLMs). I think it’s OK to call these AI—they’re the latest and (currently) most interesting development in the academic field of …
Literature fans should welcome AI as a fellow wordsmith | Aeon Essays
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself
AI* in languages other than English
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* transcription
This is something I’m likely to consider using, or, I don’t know, maybe not? * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI*-powered plagiarism
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* alignment/misalignment
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* influence on writing/speech
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* for accessibility
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI should be opt-in (how to opt out)
I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI,” but I believe all AI features should be opt-in, at least until they actually really do work as advertised
A Court Reporter Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says
Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations
AI Meeting Recording Laws by State: Complete Guide (2026)
Someone used AI to create a book about me and sold it online
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually…
Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co)
If You're In the UK or EU, Here's How to Object to Meta's AI Training
Google、プライバシーポリシーに「Gmail」「Googleフォト」のデータを広告に使う例外を追加 回避方法は
Google makes a privacy policy exception to use your Gmail and Photos data for ads
Search generative AI control - Search Console Help
Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
How to Opt Out of AI Tools or Training Made by Big Tech
A Review of the Ray-ban Meta AI Glasses for People With Low Vision
Is Meta Using Disabled People to Promote Its Glasses?
For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought
Smart glasses controversy sidelines the benefits for disabled people | Letter
AI as a Tool for the Mental Load | Brittany Ellich | Offprint
Anker’s new earbuds are the first with its AI chip that boosts noise reduction
Chatbots and the Ballot Box: Evaluating Accuracy, Sourcing, and Language Gaps in AI Answers to Election Questions - Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Watch out! It's not a good idea to ask AI chatbots about the U.S. elections because they get it wrong—especially in Spanish. - Factchequeado.com
ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
opus 5.5 is deeply misaligned and will reflextively disagree with anything you say in the second paragraph of whatever it talks to you about…
OpenAI flags concerning new AI behavior and vows to track it more closely
OpenAI、モデルのミスアライメントを報告する枠組みを公表 ——6件のレポートも公開 | gihyo.jp
OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions
What is the AI alignment problem and how can it be solved? | New Scientist
Natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
I hate how the constructions now associated with AI "writing," which of course are stolen from actual writing, are now making me edit myself…
Let me know if this is just me: Noticed someone I know who is very "AI-pilled" and uses agents 24/7 to... start to talk IRL noticeably more…
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
AI ‐induced dehumanization
Do You Speak ChatGPTese? Beyond Writing, AI Is Also Flattening The Way We Talk
Will AI shape the way we speak? The emerging sociolinguistic influence of synthetic voices
