True, it's not critical thinking. It's a heuristic. It's not an entirely unreasonable one, either, since something being AI generated is much more likely to be

True, it's not critical thinking. It's a heuristic. It's not an entirely unreasonable one, either, since something being AI generated is much more likely to be of low/no value than something that isn't. I'm fine with using that heuristic, personally. There isn't enough time in the day to critically analyze everything I come across, so a quick way of making a "first cut" is a good thing, even if it means sometimes discarding some wheat hiding in the chaff.