"This article wasn't written by an AI. So what if it had been!" | https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/09/07/this-article-wasnt-written-by-an-ai-so-what

"This article wasn't written by an AI. So what if it had been!" | https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/09/07/this-article-wasnt-written-by-an-ai-so-what-if-it-had-been https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/09/07/this-arti... "It seems to me that the moral panic around writing with AI exists on a different plane of reality. Behind the admonishments to never outsource one's writing is a naive implication that inside everyone rests a hidden Hemingway, and all they need is time and the discipline to sit with a blank page. To do otherwise is loser behaviour. This is a bonkers, elitist vision of the writing world, which is now fuelling a cottage industry of word police, like Claude's watermarking or Pangram's AI-writing score. Neither shows you how to make your draft stronger. They are essentially just scolds in the form of software: You're writing wrong, you cheat. Be better! But how do you write better if you don't know what better writing looks like?" Read Will reading "AI"-generated text (cf. brain-generated text from competent authors) produce competent writers Absent the output of competent writers (cf. "AI" output) will there be more high quality material for aspiring writers to read