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Wittgenstein Knew Why AI Gets Dumber — and Why Text Provenance Doesn't Matter
AI models grow dumber when they train on their own outputs. Mathematicians already know the cure, and it's exactly what Wittgenstein said about language half a century ago.
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Wittgenstein Knew Why AI Gets Dumber — and Why Text Provenance Doesn't Matter
AI models grow dumber when they train on their own outputs. Mathematicians already know the cure, and it's exactly what Wittgenstein said about language half a century ago.
The Fact-Checking Ceiling: Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini, and Why No AI Cleared 70% Truth in 2026
Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini have become working tools in journalism, providing drafts and research as well as fact-checking quotes. The question of whether to use them no longer stands. A new one has replaced it: where and how each model lies.
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.
A council of robots: five models debate whether they're human enough
The experiment: ask five flagship models to stop nodding along and actually argue with each other about the fate of the author. What came out of it: panicked self-reflection, Chinese Taoism, two aphorism slams, and one uncomfortable "we" that all the models reached for with suspicious eagerness.
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.
AI Data Centers in Space: The Orbital Fix for a Power Crisis Earth Can't Solve
Earth can no longer keep up with the appetites of artificial intelligence — and the most serious people in the industry are looking upward, more and more often
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