From the first moment I saw a photo of this home, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater has fascinated and inspired me. It brought me great joy to see that a three-year renovation was recently completed. I've yet to visit this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Perhaps now is the time.

This whole "prove you made this without AI" movement is going to end soon. It just won't matter anymore. The ability to work with AI to help build content is too effective. And for those that use it correctly, it's a game-changing opportunity to be more productive and generate more and better content. Particularly when AI is used to organize and synthesize your own unique content and data.

“The problem is going to be definition and verification. Does chatting with an LLM about the idea before executing it manually count as using AI? And how could the creator prove no AI was involved?” Jonathan Stray, senior scientist at the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI told The Verge.

There is nothing in this Futurism article headline that supports this headline, "Sam Altman Opens Up About Telling CEO of Disney That It Had All Been Smoke and Mirrors," at all. These kinds of clickbait headlines infuriate me.

The article describes: A strategic shutdown, a missed partnership, and some awkward but professional communication.

The headline reframes it as: A confession, some kind of dramatic reveal, or a "we were faking it" moment.

Those are not even close to the same things.

The A-Frame conclusion of this Psychology Today article is where the gold is.

A-Frame: Practical Takeaway

Awareness of risks. Notice when you reach for AI before forming your own thought — not after. The gap between stimulus and tool is where cognitive agency actually lives. How wide is yours today compared to six months ago?

Appreciation of friction. Reintroduce productive difficulty deliberately. Write the first draft without assistance. Sit with the question overnight. Give yourself your own worst answer before asking a machine for a polished one.

Accept challenges along the path. Research on desirable difficulties confirms that productive struggle is the mechanism of durable learning — not its obstacle. Growth requires friction.

Accountability audits along the way. Once a week, do something cognitively demanding with no AI in the room. It is a form of calibration. Because you cannot track what you are losing if you never check whether you still have it."

It appears "emotion" is influencing AI responses. This is actually a pretty fascinating study. If you don't want to read the entire paper, I suggest at a minimum watching the YouTube video they put together. It does a pretty good job of explaining exactly what it was that they found.

What's interesting about this is the correlation that they make between human emotion and the attempts at understanding and displaying emotion that the AI chatbots produce. I think Anthropic does a pretty good job of self-policing, though I think most of the efforts being put forth by the companies building these large language models is much like grading your own homework.

In this case, they're revealing patterns of artificial intelligence behavior that appear to be influenced by their understanding of human emotion. This one is worth paying attention to as it continues to develop.

The EU has banned use of "fully AI-generated" images and videos. I can't tell if the ban also includes text, but it doesn't appear to. I think I'm more in agreement with this. “Responsible use beats abstinence,” said Walter Pasquarelli, an adviser to the OECD who also researches AI-generated content at the University of Cambridge.