Field Notes on Trust and AI

RadiationBox

An independent publication on trust signals, media incentives, and AI-native behavior.

Latest Published Essay

Part 1: Why The X API Still Matters To My Data Science Story

I did not come to the X API because I wanted to sound current. I came back to it because public text has been part of how I learned data science for a long time, and I wanted to know what still worked in the real environment.

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ads in chat: the next trust break or trust build moment

If conversational AI becomes the place people ask personal and local questions, ad policy becomes part of the trust architecture. The paid layer can change what people believe the answer is doing.

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when a workspace rename becomes identity drift

I moved and renamed a long-running Codex workspace folder and the app briefly made it look like thread history had vanished. The threads were still there. The workspace identity had split.

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the AI disclosure gap is here

I wrote this after a thread where AI was used to critique AI slop. That paradox feels like the exact trust problem of this moment.

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