Josh McConnell on Mythryl: “I wrote about how polished writing no longer tells us as much about…”

I wrote about how polished writing no longer tells us as much about the thinking behind it, and then I ran the finished piece through an AI detector. Pangram said it was 66% AI-written and yet I wrote the entire piece myself. Read the piece here: joshmcconnell.substack.com/p/when-ai-wr...

joshmcconnell.substack.comWhen AI writing can look human, what does polish still prove?A study found readers preferred AI-written stories and struggled to tell them from human ones. When everything appears finished, we have to judge the thinking and choices behind the work.

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