When Companies Hide Humans Behind the AI Curtain
What happens when companies deliberately make human-written text read as machine-generated? This episode breaks down the "pseudobot" text generator — a system prompt that strips warmth, adds procedural stiffness, and turns personal communication into automated-sounding output using nothing more than a small, cheap model. Then the conversation shifts from mechanism to evidence, hunting for real-world cases where the impulse to hide humans behind an AI curtain has already shown up: Amazon's Just Walk Out and its thousand human reviewers, AI detector false positives that force people to prove…
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