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Thank you, Kin. Agreed, the speed of the shift surprised me too. Twenty months ago we were comparing SDK generators on features, and now the question is which ones will still exist 😅

Think you’ve got it right. The last year on SubStack has seen. The addition is 3 features no one asked for, and did nothing but alienate the writers there. Writers who didn’t have a need for short videos, or podcasts, or AI detector that is another AI and lie about its own accuracy. Pangram claims a 90+% accuracy. I ran experiments including over 30 articles ran through Pangram. Not one was correctly identified. Not one in 30. Most weren’t difficult, like an article I wrote that was flagged as 100% AI, and one that was fully generated with no changes from me that it ID’d at 100% human. As I went in u mixed AI into writing in different ways, but Pangram never recognized the mixes. What each of these new features had was a negative effect on the community. Video and podcast formulas were obviously pandering in to a completely different kind of user. The Pangram integration caused 6 months of arguments as to the ethical implications it brought along with several new authors that were being courted by the largest publishers, suddenly developed rumors of possible AI content. Two lost multimillion dollar publishing deals. Just because of of rumors, these brand new authors had careers destroyed forever and lost lucrative contracts with major publishers. Pangram brought with it only suspicion. It didn’t decrease slop(which I’m almost certain has nothing to do with AI, and is actually the result of normal living people who are just bad writers). By embracing an AI judgement machine that could only be used by authors and readers, and no result that would actually punish the users in anyway, absolutely destroyed the community. It caused months of frustration from authors, and created a space where any article about AI becoming the norm.

I wish I understood more of this. A lot of it sounds like it would make my notes and world building easier

Thanks Kin, and thanks for putting real numbers on what many of us only suspected, looking forward to OpenLint bright future

@joycestack yep its a pretty fun initiatiave though I havent broken 50 yet lol