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This week, some reflections on the aesthetics of ai, the challenge of lack of insurability and how to present a biotech startup to non-experts. — Ana
Too good to be true
Most tools that claim to detect ai-generated text fail spectacularly, my colleague Kyle Wiggers reported. That is a paradox. I'm only human, but many of the ai-written speeches I receive still don't pass the sniff test; his style and verbiage feel wrong.
On the other hand, it's probably too early to expect machines to detect a je ne sais quoi, even if we can see it. As fellow TechCrunch writer Ron Miller recently observed, “It's really like ai-generated art, which has a certain look to it.”
That appearance became curiously obvious in a recent experiment conducted on one of my favorite social media accounts. ugly belgian houses.
