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How to spot AI writing
A GHOST WRITER is haunting the English language. The linguistic spectre can turn its hand to prose, poetry, journalese and corporate jargon. It is frightfully versatile: you can get it to mimic Shakespeare’s sonnets or a schlocky beach read; Ernest Hemingway’s taut prose or the office-printer manual. It is frightfully fast, churning out thousands of words a minute. (Hemingway rarely produced as many in a day, and required much more booze.) Wordsmiths are spooked.
TL;DR
- AI can write in various styles, from poetry to corporate jargon, and mimic specific authors.
- It can generate thousands of words per minute, far exceeding human speed.
- AI writing is appearing in emails, social media, websites, and potentially student essays and scientific papers.
- There are allegations of AI-generated prose winning literary prizes, though these have been denied.