The Atlantic
AI’s Favorite Sentence Structure Is Not Just Annoying, It’s Inescapable
AI chatbots are addicted to the 'not X, but Y' sentence structure, and it's spreading to human speech like a linguistic virus.
2026-07-12
The Atlantic
2026-05-30
The Atlantic
Pangram: The AI Detective That's Too Good - and Too Bad - at Its Job
The AI-detection tool Pangram has become the go-to arbiter of bot-written text - even though it's about as reliable as a coin flip that occasionally lands on its edge.
2026-05-01
The Atlantic
Slopocalypse Now: The Internet Is Drowning in AI-Generated Text and We're All Just Janitors Now
AI-detection company Pangram says 35% of new websites are AI-generated, the Pope's AI warning was probably written by AI, and we're all just slop janitors now.
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