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This week, some ideas on AI aesthetics, the problem of uninsurability, and how one can 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 a variety of the AI-written pitches I obtain don’t move the sniff check but; their model and wordiness really feel off.

Then once more, it’s in all probability 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 just lately, “it’s actually like AI-generated artwork, which has a sure appear and feel.”

That appear and feel was made funnily apparent in a current experiment carried out on certainly one of my favourite social media accounts, Ugly Belgian Houses.