The written word isn’t at as big a risk from AI as you might think

Welcome to AI Collision 💥,

In today’s collision between AI and our world:

• What is “news” and what is real?
• QuillBot thinks it’s AI, and so do I
• Taxitron 5000

If that’s enough to get the lazy writers copy/pasting, read on…

AI Collision 💥

Last Friday I was quite impressed by the ability of DeepSeek’s AI to “think” and reason when coming up with an answer to my question for my son.

Lo and behold, just a few days later, I found myself unimpressed by the proliferation of AI through what some would consider “news”.

Let me explain…

When doing my research into the SoundHound saga, which I wrote to you about yesterday, I decided to do a bit more of a general search for anything else I might have missed about SoundHound.

As you’d expect, a general Google search for SoundHound came up with a whole bunch of information. There was all the company info from its official site, news items, SEC filings, etc. Then there were the other usual high-ranking search items – the app on Apple’s App Store, a Wikipedia page, then some data links to the Nasdaq, Yahoo Finance and CNBC.

But wedged in between these was a section called “Top stories”, which can pop up when you’re searching on Google. When you click on the “News” tab, it will also populate the latest and highest ranking “news”.

I say it like this, “news”, because the truth is a lot of the “news” that now exists online is actually directly copy/pasted from AI like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, CoPilot and whatever else people tend to use.

It’s very easy to spot. Well to me it is, I’ve been doing this for a while now.

I say this because when I searched for SoundHound, the third “news” article – and one that appeared on the front page of the Google search under the “Top Stories” section – looked to me like a 100% rip from an AI chat service (probably ChatGPT).

I was so convinced this “news” story was a 100% rip that I copy/pasted it into QuillBot’s AI content detection service.

QuillBot is an AI-based writing assistance program that helps to re-write, paraphrase, enrich and advance writing. It has become very popular over the last couple of years with the rise of generative AI services.

It also has plagiarism and AI detection tools to check what you’re reading is actually written by a human.

I ran this “news” story on SoundHound through QuillBot’s AI detection service and here are its results.

What was even more infuriating about this was the fact it was clearly being passed off as the original work of an author. Here’s the description in her bio on the page underneath the article.

I blacked out the name because for benefit of the doubt, maybe she’s just so good at writing like a robot that it is original and not AI. Maybe the highly advanced AI detection tool just can’t tell the difference.

To show you that QuillBot does know a thing or two, I ran yesterday’s AI Collision through it as well. Here are the results:

I think that we’re going to continue to see AI-generated written content being passed off as “news” all over the internet. But as good as some of it could become, I think we’ll continue to find that it lacks the human element that makes the written word so interesting and powerful. That deep inside you’ll know what is AI and what is not.

I also think that it will create a division, an opportunity perhaps, whereby genuine human content ranks higher and higher over AI-generated content – and the value of human insight rises through the noise.

That’s not to say that AI doesn’t and won’t serve a purpose. It is a very useful tool for immense data crunching, finding information quickly (so long as it’s sourced and can be double checked) and making funny pictures.

However, I don’t foresee a world anytime soon where great novels are written by AI, where real insight and research is wholly AI, and where AI eliminates the need for humans when it comes to understanding, analysing and investing in the markets.

Maybe I’m too optimistic about humanity’s ability to remain the king of the castle, so to speak. But while AI continues to rise into our daily lives, I just don’t see it taking over… ever.

PS here the article I’m 100% sure (and so is QuillBot) that was written by AI.

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Boomers & Busters 💰

AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).

Boom 📈

• Predictive Oncology (NASDAQ:POAI) up 39%
• Vicarious Surgical (NYSE:RBOT) up 29%
• Micron (NASDAQ:MU) up 13%

Bust 📉

• Cyngn (NASDAQ:CYN) down 63%
• AeroVironment (NASDAQ:AVAV) down 13%
• Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) down 10%

From the hive mind 🧠

• It’s hard to keep track of the model updates and releases coming out of the major AI players. OpenAI has its 4o, o1 and o3 models – plus Deep Research is on the way. DeepSeek has R1. Meta has Llama 3. And now Elon Musk’s xAI has just released its latest “flagship” model, Grok-3.
• I had no idea that every year 20% of fishing gear is lost at sea! That’s crazy and a real threat to marine conservation. Thankfully, we can now use AI to help remove garbage like this from the ocean.
• Having lost on average of around one winter tyre every year to potholes in and around the West Midlands, I do find it comical that AI is being used to find potholes before they become potholes. How about they bloody fix the billions of potholes that already exist rather than worrying about new ones. Start with the biggest problem first please.

Artificial Polltelligence 🗳️

Weirdest AI image of the day

The Central IRS Database The 1956 : Taxitron 5000

ChatGPT’s random quote of the day

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Sam Volkering

Editor-in-Chief

AI Collision