AI's writing and semantic ablation
Thanks to Kottke for sharing this article from The Register: Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation.
The article, which is not long and you should go read right now, explains something I’ve felt but haven’t properly understood: AI’s writing sucks.
“Sucks” in that AI sucks the uniqueness, the humanness, the intrigue out of written language, leaving sound but generic and hollow verbiage in its wake.
The article makes a good analogy:
The result is a "JPEG of thought" – visually coherent but stripped of its original data density through semantic ablation.
In conclusion, if you use AI to do your writing for you, your writing sucks. In more ways than one. 😉