The AI Writing Tell Everyone Is Talking About
Darren Chastney | 16 July 2026 Recent headlines have been buzzing about a curious discovery: researchers have identified a writing habit that appears far more frequently in AI-generated text than in human writing. The pattern is called negative parallelism. You’ve almost certainly seen it. It’s not just about technology—it’s about people. This isn’t simply a […]
Slovakia’s AI Ambitions: Can Regional Investment Transform the Innovation Landscape?
Recent reports highlighting artificial intelligence investment initiatives linked to the Trenčín region raise an important question: can targeted AI investment help reshape Slovakia’s economic future? Across Europe, governments and regional authorities are increasingly viewing AI not merely as a technological trend, but as a strategic driver of competitiveness, productivity, and long-term economic resilience. Slovakia faces […]
The Sydney AI Controversy Isn’t About Cheating. It’s About Disclosure.
Darren Chastney | 3 June 2026 A recent controversy in Australia has sparked intense debate after a university academic reportedly used AI to help draft a newspaper opinion piece that warned students against relying on AI in their academic work. Predictably, accusations of hypocrisy followed. But I think many people are focusing on the wrong […]
NOK Computer – When AI Goes Rogue
When AI Accidentally Switches Languages: A Small Error with Big Implications During a recent writing task, an unusual thing happened. In the middle of an English sentence, the Arabic word “موجود” suddenly appeared: “A similarity score is the percentage of text in a document that matches content already موجود in databases…” The intended word was […]
What Gets Lost Between Languages (Even When the English Is Near Perfect)
In multilingual research environments, “good English” is often seen as the end goal. If a paper reads fluently, clearly, and without obvious errors, it is usually considered ready. But fluency can be deceptive. Because what is lost in translation is not always visible in the final text. A sentence may be: while still failing to […]
AI summaries – succinct but misleading?
A recent BBC News article highlighted a shift in how information is discovered online. Instead of lists of links, users are increasingly presented with AI-generated answers—summaries that extract and synthesise content from multiple sources. For researchers and academic institutions, this raises an important question: What happens when your work is no longer read in full—but […]
Fluent ≠ Precise: The Hidden Risk in Academic Writing
In academic writing, fluency is often taken as a sign of quality but….