{
  "id": 18482,
  "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/11/there-are-no-lossless-transformations-of-natural-language-text",
  "title": "There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text",
  "summary": "There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her \"internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers\". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really good. If you chose to have LLMs help massage your writing the following rule seems crucial to me: You must stand behind every idea and every sentence in your docs . It is your responsibility to make sure that the entire document is representative of your own thoughts before you sha",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "regulation",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T23:48:35.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "source_slug": "x-simon-willisons-weblog",
  "source_name": "Simon Willisons Weblog",
  "source_homepage": "https://simonwillison.net",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18482",
  "original_url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/11/there-are-no-lossless-transformations-of-natural-language-text",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}