It didn’t stand out to me as especially aesthetic or memorable, sure, but I didn’t see any issues that’d make me think it was outright “bad”. I’m not a writer, though—what did you dislike about it?
I’m not a writer either, and if I tried to write a story it would probably be worse than this. But, as well as having problems that are hard to define precisely (the lifelessness of the prose) and arguably a matter of taste (the mild-to-moderate AI slop vibe), it is much more on the nose than most good stories. Rather than leaving the reader to put some things together, it’s constantly stating exactly what conclusion we should have drawn from the preceding paragraphs.
You’ll need to see these in context to confirm how unnecessary they are, but here are some examples:
The same investors who funded the AI that “threatened” academic integrity were funding the detectors that “protected” against it. And the services that “fixed” it.
It wasn’t a bug. It was the business model.
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The pattern was clear. Coherent arguments looked like AI. Well-structured prose looked like machines. Zero typos looked suspicious.
Good writing was indistinguishable from AI. Bad writing passed as human.
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It read like a recipe blog. Like those articles where you scroll through twenty paragraphs of filler before getting to the instructions on how to boil an egg.
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His carefully researched exposé had become a meme. The protection racket remained unexposed. The only version that passed was the one nobody could understand.
The truth had become unpublishable by being well-written.
It didn’t stand out to me as especially aesthetic or memorable, sure, but I didn’t see any issues that’d make me think it was outright “bad”. I’m not a writer, though—what did you dislike about it?
I’m not a writer either, and if I tried to write a story it would probably be worse than this. But, as well as having problems that are hard to define precisely (the lifelessness of the prose) and arguably a matter of taste (the mild-to-moderate AI slop vibe), it is much more on the nose than most good stories. Rather than leaving the reader to put some things together, it’s constantly stating exactly what conclusion we should have drawn from the preceding paragraphs.
You’ll need to see these in context to confirm how unnecessary they are, but here are some examples:
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