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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.
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The Em Dash: A History of a Mark Nobody Used — Until Everyone Did
How one of the most respected and demanding marks in punctuation suddenly became toxic — and who's to blame
The Confident Average
Artificial intelligence doesn't kill creativity. It simply strips out everything alive in it: error, chance, noise.
A Brief History of Slop: Why Flawless Text Triggers Both Delight and Disgust
AI has finally learned to write perfectly. That's the worst thing that could have happened to writing.
My Friend Sounds Like ChatGPT Now — and It's Not All Bad
Some are losing their voice. Others are finding one for the first time
Can AI Write a Book for You? Yes, But You're Going to Regret It
An AI model can genuinely generate grammatically clean text at any length — but the prose will be terrible, and along with it you'll get plot amnesia, cardboard characters, impostor syndrome, and a whole host of other problems.
The New Female Intelligence
Women have been writing prompts their whole lives — explaining, reframing, iterating. A personal essay on emotional labor, AI, and why soft skills turned out to be the most powerful ones of all.
AI Doesn't Steal Your Voice If You Don't Give It Away
Texts written "with AI assistance" all sound the same, but the tool isn't to blame — the decision is. You choose whether or not to hand the model the one thing that makes writing yours
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.
