Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Baby onesie designs

A reader wrote in a while ago with a suggestion: they were about to have a baby and wondered if I could use AI to come up with some new ideas for baby onesies. I can't find the letter any more, and I don't remember how

Bonus: more baby onesie ideas

Don't use AI detectors for anything important

I've noted before that because AI detectors produce false positives, it's unethical to use them to detect cheating.

Now there's a new study that shows it's even worse. Not only do AI detectors falsely flag human-written text as AI-written, the way in

Bonus: Several ways of looking at a sandwich hole

In an effort to make AI detectors stop classifying a paragraph from my book as AI generated, I experimented with a few different ways of getting chatGPT to reword it. Here are some of my favorites.

The emoji of the future

Some of the recent image-generating models have this thing where they can fill in the blank parts of images. It's handy when you want to show them exactly how to give you more of the same. Like these animal emoji. See if you can tell which ones I