institutional-trust

How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times

Five detection tools scored the same NYT column between 0% and 60% AI-generated: the forensics disagree more than the suspects. The real crisis isn't writers using ChatGPT; it's that no institution has defined the line between AI-as-tool and AI-as-ghostwriter. OpenAI built a 99.9%-accurate watermarking tool and shelved it because users would leave; Chakrabarty asks why any AI company would watermark when their business model depends on undetectable output. We're prosecuting a crime we can't define with forensics that don't work, while the one entity that could solve it has a financial incentive not to.