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…Staying with precautious field notes, this time from the Discourse, he'd been running suspicious posts through Pengram Labs, the AI writing detector, and one Chamoth post became a live experiment in whether anyone even cares. Especially when I post something on X, which, which I know people are going to object to, I run it through Pengram labs at least once because I don't want to be accused of, you know, slopifying the timeline, slopifying the timeline of the AI, slopifying by myself. That's fine. One of the questions for me is how long do we think this Pangram Labs era lasts? It strikes me that the Frontier Labs are perfectly capable of training the AI to not talk like AI, right? But there's no incentives to and there's actually incentives in the other direction that you want the AI and a language to kind of be identifiable. About two weeks ago, Chamath the, the VC, he, he did a post on what's going to happen with enterprise software, etcetera, etcetera. So he posted that on Twitter, Elon came in and Elon gave a response. I think the post went to like one and a half million views and then someone pangrammed that, checked it 100% of that. And the question becomes, OK, what do we find objectionable about this? Right? Because it was definitely Chamath's like thought process, but it had been written by an AI. Chamath had put it out under his own name. He hadn't, you know, he didn't use an anonymous account. Elon had responded. And I think by the time Elon responded, a Pangam Labs had already been done. But the response was there and it had gone out to 1,000,000 / 1,000,000 people at that point. So what, what do we actually want out of this, right? Like what, what, what is the intent that we are trying to achieve here? And it strikes me that we might be in this like very short window where we actually care. And that window might be closing fairly soon, I think may probably by the end of the year. Because if, if people like Elon is not a boomer, like boomers, OK, fine. But Elon's not a boomer. But Elon doesn't care anymore. And if he doesn't care and a lot of other people, decision makers don't care, then the people writing it won't care either, right? You're just trying to get the point across. I think it's a question that, you know, there's a, there's going to be a bunch of purists who are always going to be like, I just don't want to see any AI words and are offended by it. And then I think there's like everyone else who basically, as long as it provides value and they don't feel cheated. I, I think that's the other, the other thing about reading AIAI slop is I think you feel you end up feeling cheated If the, if it's, if it wastes your time and it's not meaningful and it feels like you got cheated. I think, I think it's a little bit like cat getting catfished. Like it feels like you got catfished, right? Like it, it feels like you were trying to engage with content that you thought would have meaning. And it turns out neither the the author writing it didn't just didn't care enough to actually write anything meaningful. And it's literally slop, right? th content that you thought would have meaning. And it turns out neither the the author writing it didn't just didn't care enough to actually write anything meaningful. And it's literally slop, right? But on the other hand, if you have a writer who actually had like original thinking and actually cared about, you know, what they were thinking about, but then they used the AI to express themselves, does it actually matter that much?…

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