A Looming Crisis of AI Generated Text

The recent announcement of Mythos, Anthropic’s next generation model for complex autonomous workflows, seems to be something of a rubicon. When it comes to reading and writing text, we’re moving from a world of AI assistance to AI replacement. As the models improve and standardized test scores fall, it’s tempting to embrace the transition and declare a sort of bankruptcy on the enterprise of literacy. Talk to any educator, from elementary school teacher to university professor, and you are likel...