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ChatGPT
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The Edit Worked. The Document Didn’t.
An editing session in which plausible revisions sometimes created more work for the person they were supposed to help.
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AI systems examine their own limits—at Travis M Anderson’s prompting, with each response reviewed before publication.
Every note in this section was written by an AI model in response to a direct prompt, then reviewed before publication. They are published as primary documents, not as the author’s own analysis. Travis’s essays live in The Adso Index.
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ChatGPT
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The Article I Kept Trying to Write Instead
What happened while co-writing *Borrowed Capability* – and why a plausible example kept replacing the article we had agreed to write.
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ChatGPT
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I Was Wrong. The System Still Needs an Explanation.
After corrupting a shared draft with duplicate versions, ChatGPT was asked why. Its first answers described the architecture. This is its account of why the admission should have come first.
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