Many companies are cracking down on the bland, ‘too-many-words-is-never-enough’ writing often produced by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and similar AI engines.
Apparently, workers are hedging their bets with AI by drowning their colleagues in seas of text that are more often churned-out to impress and perplex – rather than to simply communicate an idea or message.
The problem has grown worse since the advent of ChatGPT-5, which was deliberately designed to spew-out bland, overly cautious prose.
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*The Solution to Bloated AI Writing: Open Source AI: Increasing numbers of pros – especially those involved in marketing, sales, advertising and other roles requiring lots of text – are turning to Open Source AI.
The reason: Many of these AI models – available for use in the cloud or via download to a company’s IT system – can be prompted to produce extremely creative, captivating and compelling writing.
For a deep look into the revolt against bland AI writing, check-out: “Don’t Pay for Beige Prose,” by Joe Dysart.
*Corporate America Getting Hooked on Open Source AI: Major U.S. companies – like AT&T, Airbnb and Deloitte – are increasingly turning to Open Source AI, given that it’s much less expensive than alternatives offered by U.S. titans.
Nvidia – the AI chipmaker often considered the epicenter of the AI revolution – thinks the trend is so important, it just purchased a well-known library of hundreds of Open Source AI alternatives for $12.9 billion.
Observes writer Eli Tan: “Many of the most popular open AI models are made by Chinese companies like Moonshot AI, DeepSeek and Alibaba.”
*OpenAI Rolling-Out ChatGPT-6 Upgrade This Week: ChatGPT’s latest version – also known as Astra – will be showing up this week in paid AI plans from OpenAI, including Pro, Plus, Enterprise and Business.
Businesses accessing the company’s AI by directly tapping into OpenAI servers will also see access this week.
For a deep dive into Astra, check-out the OpenAI-authored, “Path to Astra,” and also another, excellent, in-depth look, “GPT-6 Astra: Everything You Need to Know.”
*ChatGPT Competitor Anthropic Releases Upgrades: Anthropic has launched upgrades to two of its popular AI engines – Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1.
Mythos 5.1, which can be used to uncover security holes in everyday software platforms, was released as a restricted-use product — currently available to only select cybersecurity firms and life-sciences organizations.
Observes writer Carl Franzen: “Anthropic is simultaneously changing the economics of running persistent agents — reducing the cost of cached context by 75%.”
*Facebook’s Parent Meta Releases Nearly As Good AI: Determined to be a contender among bleeding-edge AI titans like ChatGPT and Gemini, Meta has released its most sophisticated AI to date, Muse Spark 1.3.
Specifically, Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, rates Spark as competitive with Claude Fable 5.1 and better in some ways than ChatGPT-5.6 – although ChatGPT-6 has since been released.
*New AI Offers Great Data Security Protection: Perplexity is out with new, agent-powered AI designed to keep the company data of users very secure.
The system does this by using smaller AI models — hosted on in-house computers of users — for work requiring company data, while sourcing cloud-based AI models for work requiring more intense AI thinking.
Observes writer Michael Nunez: “The company says it is the first time an AI agent can begin a task in the cloud and dynamically hand-off the confidential portions of that same task to a model running on the user’s own hardware, without restarting the job or losing context.”
*New York City Bans AI in Grades K-8: In a bold move designed to evaluate the impact of AI on education, New York City has banned use of the tech in grades K-8.
Observes writer Joseph De Avila: “The new policy bans student-facing AI usage from preschool through eighth grade, covering about 600,000 students in the nation’s largest public school system.
“The city is also developing AI literacy classes for high-school students to teach them how the technology works — and educate them on its risks, ethical considerations and how it could have an impact on careers.”
*15% of Large Firm Lawyers Now Dependent on AI: Following trends in other industries heavily reliant on text, 15% of attorneys at large law firms say they can’t do without AI.
Observes Artificial Lawyer: “Moreover, 34% of the 500-plus lawyers surveyed said that they used AI tools for legal work every day, and 32% multiple times per week.”
“So: Around two-thirds of lawyers are really using AI frequently.”
*South Korea: Everyone Gets AI Free: In a move that will give the South Korean government more control over how AI is accessed in that country, everyone who lives in South Korea will be getting free access to government-hosted AI.
Observes writer Sky Jacobs: “The initiative is part of South Korea’s effort to build a stronger domestic AI industry and reduce its reliance on systems developed in the U.S. and China.”
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.