The Awkward Honesty of AI Attribution

Why does adding "co-written with AI" to your work feel like confessing a sin? We explore the patchwork of emerging attribution norms across open-source, academia, and content platforms — from GitHub's "Co-authored-by" trailers to Nature's ban on AI authorship. We unpack the three roots of the AI stigma: the craft ideology that valorizes suffering, the effort heuristic that penalizes disclosed AI help, and the impostor amplifier that makes transparency feel like self-exposure. Plus: why a 2024 study found that context-rich disclosure mitigates the quality penalty, and what the gold standard for attribution actually looks like. Episode #440479 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/440479