Writing used to mean the thinker and the writer were the same person.

AI can now write fluent sentences with no lived experience.

The question isn't who gets credit, but if we can tell if there's a mind behind it.

Looking back, that word carried a single and powerful claim. The author was the one who had the thought and wrote it down. It was the same person and the act without a gap between them. This is what gave writing its authority. It wasn't just the elegance of the sentence, but the assumption that a mind stood behind it. Importantly, being a writer was inexorably connected to being a thinker.

AI may be the first technology with the power to separate the........

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