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This week, some ideas on AI aesthetics, the problem of uninsurability, and pitch a biotech startup to non-experts. — Anna
Too good to be true
Most instruments claiming to detect AI-generated textual content fail spectacularly, my colleague Kyle Wiggers reported. That’s a paradox. I’m solely human, however loads of the AI-written pitches I obtain don’t go the sniff take a look at but; their fashion and wordiness really feel off.
Then once more, it’s most likely too early to count on machines to detect a je ne sais quoi, even when we are able to see it. As fellow TechCrunch author Ron Miller noticed not too long ago, “it’s actually like AI-generated artwork, which has a sure feel and look.”
That feel and look was made funnily apparent in a latest experiment carried out on one in all my favourite social media accounts, Ugly Belgian Houses.