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		twoodfin 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI employees don't pay taxes The shibboleths aren’t the problem with AI writing; the problem is that it’s bad writing. Good writing uses novel combinations of tools (vocabulary, rhetoric, metaphor) to communicate novel ideas. Bad writing is a cargo cult of those tools.

emodendroket 21 days ago [–]

That’s a bit of a different problem. I’m talking about people specifically wanting to know whether AI was used. There are lots of bad writers out there with or without AI assistance.

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