AI may push more people to hide how they used it to produce work
cloneofsimo · x · 2026-07-21
The post argues that AI will create new incentives to hide its use in creative and academic work.
- If someone publishes a result that was actually helped by AI, they may still seek credit as if they had done it unaided.
- The author thinks this will become a broader pattern: people will pretend they did not use AI to come up with ideas or proofs.
- The core claim is not about a specific model, but about how AI changes attribution and honesty incentives.
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