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This week some Thoughts on the aesthetics of AI, the uninsured problem, and how to market your biotech startup to non-experts. — anna

It’s too good to be true

Most tools that claim to detect AI-generated text fail spectacularly, my colleague Kyle Wiggers reported. That’s contradictory. I’m just a human, but many of the suggestions written by AI still don’t pass the sniff test. I find their style and language offensive.

Again, even if we could see it, it’s probably too early to expect machines to detect it. As fellow TechCrunch writer Ron Miller recently put it, “It’s just like AI-generated art, with a certain look and feel.”

That look and feel was amusingly revealed in a recent experiment on one of my favorite social media accounts. ugly belgian house.