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AI and the Fall of Writing

AI-generated text is becoming indistinguishable from human writing due to its perfect grammar and structure, trained on vast corpora of books and texts, raising concerns for human writers.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 12, 2026

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | We can all spot an AI written text Not by its hallucinations - because it generally isn't any. Not by poor grammar - because it isn't. In fact, that's the problem. The text IS perfect. Having been trained on loads of written texts - including a gazillion books - AI written texts contains all hallmarks of good texts; Sentence structure, grammar, rethoric tweaks and what not. What does that make of us who like writing? | ||||||||||| |

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