My latest for @TheEconomist: AI writing is taking over politics.
10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada.
Link: https://t.co/nC2OGDsK6O
And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders
Ran @pangram on a few thousand @Substack posts. The people who disable the feature on avg have higher AI use. Thank you @max_spero_ and @chrisbest for the feature.
Inspired by @TuhinChakr's analysis on books.
https://t.co/mJyph6Q2PK
@NaomiBashkansky Isn't this just promoting cognitive decline? Articulating one's thoughts is the equivalent of improving thinking https://t.co/2MX1R1sIeI
🚨 New paper on AI and Copyright 🚨
It's easy to dismiss AI-written books 📚 as slop nobody buys. So, armed with full-text AI detection from @pangram, we studied self-published genre fiction books sold on Amazon from 2023 to 2026 March
Turns out Amazon is flooded with books with substantial AI text and these books are earning significant 💰💸 and most importantly, crowding out sales of non-AI books.
FWIW, a book doesn't need to be high quality to have a market impact. It just has to exist in the thousands, which Generative AI enables.
Joint w/ @dhillon_p (@UMich), @irisiris_l (@stonybrooku ) & Jane Ginsburg (@ColumbiaLaw)
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