The latest literary AI scandal forces us to question what we expect of writers. Some French authors argue AI is now part of our lives – and authorship is evolving.
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What should we call the words that this ultramodern technology produces? For clues, a professor looks to some of the world’s earliest authors.
Negation-based language is cognitively ineffective. And when amplified by AI-generated writing it distorts how people engage with ideas.
When people know someone used AI to write a message, they see the person as lazy or insincere.
In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’
Many more authors may be using AI undetected.
A linguist explains what makes human English human, and why you shouldn’t overdo it with large language models.
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Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Michigan
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PhD in English Literature, University of Liverpool
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Professor of History, American University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
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PhD, Management, Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph
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Assistant Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sydney