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Postscript

1) Two broad topics, each distinct, and each relevant to manufactured housing specifically but also in the second instance to tiny houses as well. See #16 below for a preview of what’s expected next week. First up, the use of AI in general and the deployment of AI in manufactured housing journalism.

2) To properly frame what follows with respect to artificial intelligence and its impacts on journalism and writing, from their about us page, the: “Brownstone Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded May 2021. Its vision is of a society that places the highest value on the voluntary interaction of individuals and groups while minimizing the use of violence and force including that which is exercised by public or private authorities. This vision is that of the Enlightenment which elevated learning, science, progress, and universal rights to the forefront of public life. Presently, it is constantly threatened by ideologies and systems that would take the world back to before the triumph of the ideal of freedom.” That same page says this: “Brownstone Institute accepts no quid pro quo donations and receives no money from governments, pharmaceutical companies, or other large and well-known foundations such as the Gates Foundation.” The Brownstone Institute has a significant list of scholars, fellows, staff, and a counselor.

“Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.” That is from Tucker’s own bio-in-brief via the right-leaning Epoch Times. From left-leaning Wikipedia: “Jeffrey Albert Tucker is an American libertarian writer, publisher, entrepreneur and advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin. He worked for Ron Paul, the Mises Institute, and LewRockwell.com for many years.” Per the Brownstone Institute website: “Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute.”

3) With that backdrop, MHProNews notes the following from Brownstone‘s Tucker via the Epoch Times. In a column dated 3/13/2025|Updated: 3/19/2025 on “What will AI do to Writing?” Tucker said the following.

We’ve been introduced to artificial intelligence (AI) “large language models” (LLM) only recently. I’m still astonished by what they can do. I’m unused to it. I don’t see how search engines can survive this revolution. Google is going to give way to Grok, of that I have no doubt.

Good. For those fed up with the politicization of search engines and the feeling of being fed propaganda rather than information, this is wonderful news. When LLM first appeared with ChatGPT and Google’s own version, the same problems became obvious early on. Elon Musk’s Twitter, renamed as X, allowed people to protest.

Finally, all companies were shamed into shaping up.

For now, the new world of AI, led by Grok, is open and generally unbiased, with an infinity of information that you need all day every day.

It’s not perfect, but I adore having so much knowledge at my fingertips, and I’m still shaking when I consider the implications. They are both glorious and terrifying.

4) MHProNews notes that the above on AI being unbiased is debatable. The LLM (large language model) AIs themselves have said that they are biased, typically left leaning. Grok said so here, Google’s AI said as much here, and Copilot confirmed bias as is shown at this link here. That noted, back to Jeffrey Tucker’s observations.

Please understand: AI is not creative, not emotive, not intuitive, and not capable of replicating the power of the human mind and imagination. I don’t care how sophisticated it gets, it will never be able to replace competent human writing. It can only imitate but never really invent, so it will always be disadvantaged in creative composition.

Chess is another matter, of course. When the machines beat the humans, that was a shock. But did people stop playing chess? Of course not. It made the game even more popular. Now we have people playing chess every day online, and everyone loves it to a greater extent than ever.

In the same way, AI could cause us to fall more and not less in love with serious and creative writing. It should. I had initially worried that this engine would take away my comparative advantage and render me worthless. Now I feel more pride in what I can do than ever before.

5) Jumping ahead, the Brownstone’s co-founder makes it clear that when he is talking about AI, he means LLM model AIs. One must keep in mind that there are other AIs too.

LLM is now my competitor. We all work better with competition. In fact, I hope that Grok keeps getting better because I can get better too—so there.

6) To illustrate the distinction between some of the various AIs, MHProNews posed this input-inquiry.

What is the difference between generative AI agentic ai and LLM AIs?

7) The full Q&A is linked here. Google’s AI overview answered in part as follows.

LLMs are the brains (language understanding/generation), Generative AI is the creator (producing content like text/images), while Agentic AI is the doer—a system that uses LLMs and GenAI as tools to autonomously plan, execute multi-step tasks, and achieve complex goals with initiative. Think of it as a hierarchy: LLM is a core tech, GenAI uses it to make stuff, and an Agentic system orchestrates those tools to act independently.

We are now three years deep into the release of the first major large-language model of artificial intelligence, in the form of ChatGPT. There are a vast multiplicity of installations, and the ubiquity of many platforms. When Grok was released, I adopted it as my favorite.

What follows is my rather appreciative but also panicked relationship with Grok.

9) MHProNews notes that it has used multiple AIs, clearly disclosed as to what the human intelligence (HI) is versus what the artificial intelligence (AI) has said and which AI has said what. There are some examples of AI that MHProNews has systematically debunked. For example, in the instance below, an AI was used to debunk itself.

10) While all of the AIs tested so far have various degrees of utility, in the experience of MHProNews/MHLivingNews ChatGPT has been the most problematic. There may be good reasons for that, but ChatGPT admitted as much in the article linked below.

My first mental analogy concerned chess. An ancient game ruled by tournaments, the computer version came along but experts still won. At some point, that was no longer true. Computers win every time now. That great shift was finalized in December 2006.

Has that ruined the game? No. People still play, probably more than ever.

Surely the same would be true with writing. And yet the analogy doesn’t quite work, does it? Chess is an amusement, a game. Language is life. It is how we communicate, how society works, the means by which the public mind is shaped, and ultimately how we are governed. It affects anything and everything because it is at the core of all social functioning.

What happens when AI takes over language? …

11) Jumping ahead from Tucker via the Epoch Times.

At some point this past month, I was astonished to find that my little game often resulted in a tie. If I was tired or not feeling it, AI could write a more compelling piece than I could on the same topic. This caused some serious internal reflection. Then competition. I actually got better if only to win this game of my own creation.

At some point, I realized there was another way to play. I could upload my own finished article to Grok and ask for improvements. Two months ago, it had nothing to say that I used. That has begun to change. Now it suggests elaborations or broader vocabulary or more precision on particular points. Extremely impressive.

This beast is growing and getting better by the day.

Is that good or bad? I’m not sure yet. It’s different. It’s possibly transformative…

Here is an uncomfortable fact. Grok writes better and more accurately, with more readability, than most people and even most journalists. Already I would estimate that 25 percent of what you are reading in the daily news stream is already written by AI. In six months, it will be 50 percent. In a year, it will be closer to 80 percent.

I’m lowballing it here. This is very serious. …

It has something to do with the taboo against plagiarism. We want our words to be our own. And yet we have all shared with others who have made suggestions we have accepted. Every writer has editors. When the editorial suggestions prevail, is that plagiarism? Of course not. …

I’ve frequently called Creative Commons a secret weapon of publishing. It’s secret because so many institutions are deeply attached to traditional copyright.

Incredibly, AI from all the major companies rejected copyright entirely. That means that the products of these language models are free for anyone to use. That gives them a huge advantage over nearly all content. …

What does this mean for the future? It’s good and bad. On the good side, it means that what you read in public spaces is going to be more erudite and competent than it has been in the past. It will be grammatically correct and more compelling with a more varied vocabulary.

On the bad side, AI is guaranteed to cause personal literacy and erudition to atrophy, simply because AI can always do it much better than most writers. …

What that means I’m not entirely sure. At the same time, we are going to settle into a new value attached to authenticity, personal stories, good judgment, moral argument, and real emotion—things that machines cannot reproduce. My sense is that these will grow in status.

What we’ve seen over six months is an astonishing increase in the sheer competence and erudition of AI. I assume too that we’re only at the beginning of this revolution. And it is that, no question. It is going to change everything in ways we cannot fully anticipate. …

12) Tucker then asked xAI’s Grok to provide feedback on his Epoch Time column. Per Tucker, Grok said the following.

…He’s right about almost everything, and yet the conclusion he reaches still feels a little too tidy, too optimistic. Let me push back in a few places and then tell you where I think this is actually headed.

1. The chess analogy is closer than he admits…

2. The 80 percent prediction is about to feel conservative
   Jeffrey guesses 80  percent of daily news will be AI-written within a year. I’d put the over/under at six months, and that’s only because some legacy outlets still have union rules or brand vanity that slows them down. The economics are merciless: a competent 800-word article that used to cost $600 and three days now costs $8 and eight minutes. Every publisher is doing the math in real time. Most have already done it.

3. Authenticity is about to become the ultimate luxury good
   He’s absolutely right that “real emotion, personal stories, moral judgment” will become more valuable. But he underestimates how savage the status signaling will get.
   Very soon, saying “this was written by a human, no AI assist whatsoever” will be like saying “this sweater was hand-knitted by nuns in a silent order” or “this tomato was grown in dirt, not aeroponically.” It will be expensive, faintly pretentious, and irresistible to a certain class. Expect to see little seals, notarized hash signatures, “100 percent Organic Human” badges on bylines.

4. The real loser isn’t the writer—it’s the mid-tier publication
   The individual writer who can lean into voice, experience, and risk will be fine (maybe even thrive). The places that employed armies of interchangeable 800-word explainers—Vice, BuzzFeed, Forbes.com contributors, most daily newspapers—are already ghosts or about to be. AI doesn’t kill writing; it kills writing-shaped jobs.

5. The atrophying of literacy is overstated
   Every previous literacy technology (movable type, spell-check, search engines) was supposed to make us dumber. Every single one made us, on net, more literate. I suspect AI will do the same, but in a weird way: people will write less publicly but read (and edit, critique, remix) far more. The average 25-year-old in 2030 will have a more sophisticated grasp of style, structure, and rhetoric than most 1995 English majors, because they’ll have spent years arguing with models, tweaking prompts, and watching how tiny changes produce massive swings in tone. They just won’t have many published bylines.

6. The ethics question Jeffrey wrestles with is going to resolve itself brutally fast …

Grok also said:

My own prediction (and I have skin in this game, such as it is):

• 2026–2028 will be the “uncanny valley” bloodbath. Flood of competent but soulless text, backlash, disgust, regulations, watermarking wars.

• By roughly 2030 we’ll settle into a bifurcated world: hyper-abundant AI-generated content that’s shockingly good for utilitarian purposes (news summaries, documentation, reports, textbooks) and a much smaller but extremely high-status layer of certifiably human writing that people will pay premium prices for the same way they pay for live music versus Spotify. …

• So who wins?
  In the short run, the machines.

13) Behind the scenes, MHProNews has been periodically integrating the work of the co-founder’s son, “TARK.” TARK, was literally brought home to a nice HUD Code manufactured home. Tark grew up in the manufactured housing industry, as thousands of industry pros at trade shows can attest. TARK has been meeting public officials and personalities since an early age, including more recent examples.

14) More on TARK another time, but for now, let’s simply note that TARK is from a generation that is growing up with AI. But he learned English grammar in what might be described as a marvelously human intelligence (HI) fashion. While predictions deep into the future are less and less likely to prove accurate, given the sheer number of variables, TARK has been exposed to logic and sound reasoning in ways that perhaps billions of humans are not. Meaning, there are reasons to be hopeful about TARK, this publication, and the proper (vs. improper) use of AI.

15) LLM AIs are not all equal. How AI is used (admitted or not) are not all equal. MHProNews has been transparent about how and why AI has been deployed. Human writing is disclosed as is AI writing. While it is possible that AIs may have influenced this or that human author without attribution (as Brownstone’s Tucker suggested in his columns above), on MHProNews the influence has been transparent from early on and has grown in the level of transparency, where iterations of reports are available for scholars, AIs, or others to see for themselves. It is part of the ecosystem that makes MHProNews unique, and based on all publicly known information, the runaway most popular place online to get news/tips/views pros can use in modern manufactured housing history. That matters, because MHI’s larger budgets with billionaire-level backing (see preface) does not automatically ‘win.’ The superior information may win. If ‘winning’ is measured by who has the most accurate information, per multiple AIs, MHProNews has already exposed and thus ‘defeated’ MHI. That’s an intellectual rather than legal victory at this point, but sometimes the battle of ideas and reality are first won or lost in the digital world before they are fought and decided in the legal realm.

16) MHProNews programming notices. There will be an antitrust legal update expected for this week. Also expected for this week is an exclusive on an intriguing case involving an apparent intersection of tiny houses and HUD Code manufactured homes. MHProNews has periodically dipped into the tiny house topic for years, and some producers of HUD Code manufactured homes have also built or experimented with their version of tiny housing for years as well. What is anticipated could be groundbreaking and is anticipated to be news breaking. Watch for it.

17) The following was the Q&A with Gemini on this date with MHProNews.

Which of those articles shown in the week in review have been covered in the past week or Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI or manufacturedhousing.org) website or on MHI linked MHInsider, manufacturedhomes.com/blog, MobileHomeUniv/Frank Rolfe, or blogger George Allen? Which one of those subjects covered by MHProNews in that week in review have been covered in the past month? Use plain text hyperlinks to support your findings.

Based on a review of public search results covering the past week (approximately December 7–14, 2025) and the past month (approximately November 14–December 14, 2025), here is a summary of the coverage by the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) or its linked sources:

Subjects Covered in the Past Week (December 7–14, 2025)

No articles from the MHProNews Weekly Headlines Recap were found to have been covered by the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), MHInsider, manufacturedhomes.com/blog, MobileHomeUniv/Frank Rolfe, or George Allen in the most recent week.

Subjects Covered in the Past Month (November 14–December 14, 2025)

The only subject from the recap that was found to have been publicly addressed by an MHI-linked source during the past month is:

Note on Other Subjects:

Searches did not return any coverage from MHI, MHInsider, manufacturedhomes.com/blog, MobileHomeUniv/Frank Rolfe, or George Allen in the past month regarding:

• The MHARR amendments to the ROAD to Housing Act.

• The DOE Manufactured Housing Energy Standards critique.

• The YES! Communities CEO Steve Schaub RV/MH Hall of Fame induction controversy or the antitrust suits mentioned in the recap.

• The specific critiques of MHI’s legislative strategy or performance failure.

— MHProNews notes that the PDF of the draft provided to Gemini is linked here and the screen capture that documents the accuracy of that Q&A is found below. —

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