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AI and the Problem of Polished Prose

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29.05.2026

AI prose is too perfect and that perfection has become a problem.

Flawless writing just doesn't sounds like you.

We're learning to write back against the machine.

How I used to love to pepper my early writing with words like "ubiquitous" and "nascent." They certainly made me feel better, but contributed little to the communication. And I clearly remember being called to task by a teacher who warned me about purple prose.

Writing in this style, often typical in a youthful and energetic writer, is so ornate and so emotionally dense, that the words overpowered the thought. Yes, it sounded intelligent. It performed intelligence but there was often very little actually happening.

This was considered a human problem. Too much ego, decoration and the search to add style to substance. Now today, it's been engineered and a machine does it for us. Now the performance is automated and anyone can sound........

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