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Will Oremus
Профиль VivelyCovering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky. Signal: willoremus.24
this is a deep cut! i wrote that in 2017. bhaskar's full thread is worth reading
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রWhen we talk about Big Tech, let us remember as @willoremus.com eloquently puts it "society does not prepend the label “Big,” with a capital “B,” to an industry out of respect or admiration. It does it out of loathing and fear—and in preparation for battle.' 12/
What’s wild to me is that this isn’t an industry standard already. TikTok, Meta could have this option but choose not to
Tom WarrenMicrosoft-owned LinkedIn just added a “seems like AI slop” button to report posts that don’t feel human-written. It’s part of a broader push to get rid of AI slop on LinkedIn www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Chatbots being extremely good at scams is in some ways just a logical extension of the entire project of building machines that can pass for humans
Andy GreenbergScam researchers told a Claude agent and human "scammers" to text test subjects and build a relationship. After a week, subjects said they trusted the AI more than the human and almost half were willing to install an app at its request. Almost none detected it was AI. www.wired.com/story/ai-sca...
Steven Rosenbaum, the author whose "Future of Truth" book was riddled with AI-generated falsehoods, had already been caught using AI to write inaccurate and self-serving Wikipedia pages and edits, @deansterlingjones.bsky.social reports: shootingthemessenger.blog/2026/07/30/s...
SCOOP: Long Before His Book Scandal, Steven Rosenbaum Faced Accusations of AI Fabulism on WikipediaREGIONAL EMMY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER STEVEN ROSENBAUM insists that AI-generated quotes in his 2026 book, The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, were an ‘accident.’ Bu…shootingthemessenger.blog“A rental model [for iPhones] puts consumers in the strange position of storing all of this information in a gadget that Apple and Klarna maintain a lot of control over.”
Damon BeresI wrote about the new "Apple Upgrade" program, which plans to entice people into *leasing* new devices—perhaps devices they can't truly afford—leading them to stay on a perpetual cycle of monthly payments and upgrades, filtering their most personal data through property that isn't truly theirs. 🎁:
As @vauhinivara.bsky.social prophesied! The new playbook for writers whose work shows signs of AI is to simply deny it. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
This Literary AI Scandal Changes EverythingA magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep literature human.www.theatlantic.comVauhini VaraThe biggest difference between the scandal over Shy Girl being partly AI-generated and the new allegations over Daggermouth seems to be that the Shy Girl author acknowledged AI involvement (tho blamed someone else) while the Daggermouth author denies it. So now what? Nice @willoremus.com piece.
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say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
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Really enjoyed speaking to @willoremus.com about new work on market dilution caused by books with substantial AI text in them. My favorite part of this experience was to find evidence in the form of hyperspecific rare expressions from a given AI book under scrutiny that also occurs in other books.
Will OremusAI-assisted fiction is already here, tons of people are reading it, very few of them realize it, and no one wants to talk about it. Gift link to my latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
AI-assisted fiction is already here, tons of people are reading it, very few of them realize it, and no one wants to talk about it. Gift link to my latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Is This What Comes After AI Slop?Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.www.theatlantic.com
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A lot of people are reading AI-generated fiction without realizing it—"stanning" it on TikTok and Instagram, even—though in fairness a lot of people have been doing the same with what might be considered human-written "slop" as well, for quite some time
Is This What Comes After AI Slop?Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.www.theatlantic.com