I caught ChatGPT trying to improve a sentence that I'd written. It suggested replacing "That is what I'm still thinking about" with "That's what I'm still thinking about." There was just one problem: I'd written "That's." So I called ChatGPT on it: "Hold on. That's not what I wrote. Where did you get that?" We talked it through and realized what had happened. It wasn't looking at my sentence. It was mentally carrying over an earlier version of the conversation. It wasn't a big deal. I didn't think that AI was broken. I was really just curious how ChatGPT came up with the word that didn't exist. It struck me how differently a lot of people treat AI compared to humans. If a coworker made the same mistake, we wouldn't declare them unreliable and not fit to work with forever. We'd just ask them to hold on a minute so we could figure out where the mistake happened. People work through a misunderstanding and move on. What's funny is that the same conversation that contained the mistake also had some of the best insights. Correcting one mistake doesn't mean losing confidence in either AI or a person. I'm not right all the time, and I'm comfortable with that. Maybe AI deserves the same space to be wrong sometimes. It gives us room to question, think, and collaborate.

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Anthropic announced that it's embedding a watermark in all of the text it creates. This is cleverly woven into the text so it's not visible to a human. If you've been using Claude to write and distribute text for you, be aware that it now includes a permanent footprint. If you're copying and pasting even some of what Claude has written, you might want to consider typing it yourself instead. It seems likely that platforms that are pushing back on AI-generated content now have a clearer way to detect it. https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content

According to ChatGPT's SaaS Terms Watch Agent, Intuit has made changes to Intuit Intelligence that you should be aware of. I've attached the summary from ChatGPT. This is the complete Intuit blog announcement. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/product-update/intuit-intelligence-new-features/

If you didn't catch @Mark Wickersham's conversation with Alexis Kingsbury today, you'll want to watch it on YouTube. Alexis created a 100% AI-driven accounting firm as an experiment. What he discovered is insightful, practical, and realistic. Thanks for this, Mark!