On July 31, 2023, a giraffe with no spots was born at Brights Zoo in Tennessee. She's a uniform brown with pretty white highlights around her face and belly, like a Jersey cow or a white-tailed deer.

Image recognition algorithms are trained on a variety of images from

A reader wrote in a while ago with a suggestion: they were about to have a baby and wondered if I could use AI to come up with some new ideas for baby onesies. I can't find the letter any more, and I don't remember how

I've noted before that because AI detectors produce false positives, it's unethical to use them to detect cheating.

Now there's a new study that shows it's even worse. Not only do AI detectors falsely flag human-written text as AI-written, the way in