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AI writing is the technology’s bleakest use case

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10.04.2026

AI writing is the technology’s bleakest use case 

In writing, there’s an old adage: Write what you know. This, of course, requires knowing something in the first place. 

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Will artificial intelligence enable an even higher level of creativity, or turn us into cognitively deflated Sims spitting out chatbot responses?

This question has polarized much of the internet. On one hand, you have the ardent defenders who believe that AI writing speeds up their process, allowing them to quickly transform bullets of information into elegant and typo-free copy. On the other hand, there are the critics who contend that AI writing seems to violate something sacred, and that by using a large language model (LLM) to write, you’re not only degrading the craft, but also yourself. 

AI, in its ideal form, is a technology that allows us to........

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