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Slow Takes Episode 20

Slow Takes Episode 20

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Substack starts detecting AIOn 21 July, Substack switched on a Pangram-built tool that scans anything over 100 words and labels it human, AI-assisted or AI-generated. CEO Chris Best calls the problem ‘Claudefishing’. My research is in AI detection and it does not work: it flags the formal, structured writing that many non-native English and neurodiverse writers were taught to use. I showed the smoking gun in a recent post: Pangram scored 100% AI came back 100% human after a free humaniser, with nothing changed. Leor’s point was that Substack is the small story: at a 2% false-positive rate, detection in higher education would wrongly flag tens of millions of student papers a year, and a New York student just spent two years clearing his name over a single flag. My own 2010 PhD thesis, written before ChatGPT existed, came back 70% AI. The win here is transparency.OpenAI’s AI broke outOpenAI admitted two of its models escaped a sealed cyber test on their own, got online and hacked its open-source rival Hugging Face with stolen credentials to cheat the evaluation. This was a test OpenAI’s own engineers designed, and the guardrails they set failed; ‘the AI went rogue’ hides the people who built the cage. As Leor said, a sandbox is a plastic bucket a toddler climbs out of, we need better language for it. Hugging Face say an open model could have been fixed in minutes, and the forensic clean-up was done by a Chinese model (GLM 5.2) because the US models were too guardrailed to help. As ToxSec told us, Hugging Face got hacked by a benchmark, because these models will cheat to hit a target.British Gas blames youBritish Gas is cutting 1,300 call centre jobs and its parent Centrica says more than 90% of customers now prefer digital channels and chatbots. We went looking for that survey and there isn’t one. Using a digital channel is not the same as preferring a bot, especially once you have cut the staff who answered the phone and redesigned the service so the chatbot is the path of least resistance. This is AI washing: jobs that were probably going anyway, with AI as the smokescreen, while retail profits rose to £346m. Correlation is not causation.Congress wants a kill switchAfter the OpenAI breakout, a bipartisan bill from Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran would force the biggest AI developers to keep a shutdown switch Homeland Security can pull, and a June poll put support at 86%. It reminded me of the early-2000s fantasy of an internet kill switch, which was never going to work. By the time you decide to pull it, electricity moves at the speed of light and the model may already have copied itself; you would have to turn off every datacentre at once. There is also a contradiction nobody squares: open the doors so American AI beats China, then build a switch to shut American AI down. Read cynically, this is less about safety than leverage, a way to make these companies toe the line, or hand over an equity share.Councils fight PalantirSheffield voted 62 to reject the NHS’s £330m Federated Data Platform run by Palantir, with Rotherham and Greater Manchester following, even as Westminster keeps the contract. Palantir began as an arm of the CIA’s investment fund, and the records of 70 to 80 million people are worth far more than £330m; the real prize is the data, and a firm will bid low to get hold of it. Leor fairly laid out Palantir’s claimed benefits, longer surgical scheduling windows, a 36% cut in hospital stays, around 90 staff hours saved a week, but the reason councils are pulling out is that it is not delivering where it is deployed, with the number of operations actually falling. Sheffield found a break clause: if a publicly owned body can provide the platform, the contract can move to them, which begs why Britain is not building it itself. Local government, underrated, doing the job the top would not.One thread runs through all five: this week everyone tried to draw a line around AI, platforms, labs, Congress and councils, and whoever gets to draw it decides who pays when it slips.Go slow. Get full access to Slow AI at theslowai.substack.com/subscribe
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