Notes and links - 24th May 2026
EY retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations
This is a good way to talk about your product: "It’s not champagne but it has dignity, and is full of flavour."
Beware if you're using LLMs for qual analysis: https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes
Solid writing advice from Oliver Burkeman. including:
"Print it out, type it back in. This isn’t new for me in itself – I’ve been doing it for years – but this time I’ve been even more reliant on the method I discussed with Bec Evans for her new podcast This Might Work, which involves printing out the most recent section of writing, deleting it from the manuscript, then typing it from the print version back onto the screen. (Some people, in response to that podcast, seem to be experimenting with typing it back in from memory; more power to them, but I’d never dream of putting myself through that!) The result is that I make all sorts of editorial improvements as I retype, in a very painless way; it’s like a conversation with someone who almost gets what I’m trying to say, so that my only job is to suggest a slight rephrasing. Or what feels like a slight rephrasing in the moment, anyway. Looking back, that’s often the stage at which a piece of writing went from being hopelessly confusing to as clear as I’m ever going to make it."
The Economist writing for people and writing for AI (via storythings)
