Joseph Smith
From the journal — 6 pieces by this author
- June2026
- 6minJune 20The Method
The Best AI Tools for Research When Every Model Lies Confidently
Even the best AI tools for research have problems.
By Joseph Smith
- 14minJune 16The Machine
AI Data Labeling Exploitation: How Underpaid Workers in Kenya and the Philippines Undermine Model Safety
Sama paid its workers $2 an hour to watch torture, while Scale AI offered half a cent per click. Savings extracted from the people who make models "safe" come back as hallucinations, bias, and holes in the filters.
By Joseph Smith
- 4minJune 10The Machine
Apple's New AI Writing Tools: An Editor You Never Hired
Apple's next iOS update turns the grammar checker into a background layer — and Siri into a storefront for Google's Gemini.
By Joseph Smith
- 17minJune 10The Craft
Are AI Detectors Accurate? How They Get It Wrong and Who Pays
AI detectors get it wrong — and punish real people for being literate and having good style. How the detectors work, who takes the first hit, and how to fight back.
By Joseph Smith
- 16minJune 4The Machine
AI Writing vs Human Writing: Why AI Sounds the Same (And How to Fix It)
Autoregressive generation, RLHF, Min-P, Style Anchoring — everything about what makes "pastel prose" tick, explained as plainly as possible
By Joseph Smith
- 17minJune 1The Stack
Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini for Writing: Which AI Writes Best in 2026?
Long-form prose, essays, translation, poetry — four tasks in which LLMs can break along four different seams. We examine where each model breaks, and why, when choosing between GPT, Gemini and Claude, you should pick all.
By Joseph Smith