Don’t worry. They will let you know.

And won’t they just. In a 2,000-word blog post. On a website they coded themselves. With a disclaimer in the footer that no part of it was generated, assisted, or even glanced at by an LLM. And they’ll toot about it. Twice.

“I make up my own mind about posts I like. Sometimes AI-assisted posts are very good. Maybe it was just a polish. Maybe it was structural reorganisation using AI to make the text flow better. Sometimes you spot the AI tics, sometimes not. I don’t care. If a post has good ideas and good arguments behind them, they’re valuable to me, no matter how they were created. I don’t need a machine to tell me about it. I wouldn’t care if a writer was using a spellchecker to hide that they can’t spell.”

No thanks | No AI was harmed in the writing of this post.

Like Cedric I do not need a machine to tell me what I should like. Neither do I have any time for self-appointed bipedal carbon-based LLM detectors.

This is not to deny all the known wrongs associated with LLM’s and other types of AI. However, individual and collective action will always make more of a difference than preaching, finger pointing and calling out.