Accusations of Writing Whilst Artificial

12/11/2025 11 min Temporada 3

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Episode Synopsis

The provided text from Philosophics Blog, titled "Accusations of Writing Whilst Artificial," is a satirical and critical commentary on the modern tendency to label competent writing as being generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The author expresses irony and frustration over the perception that clear language and good grammar are now considered suspicious signs of inhumanity, citing personal experiences of being falsely accused by online commentators, particularly on Reddit. Furthermore, the piece critiques the AI detection industry, noting the absurdity of building machines to spot imitation when the standards for human writing have been lowered, and touches upon the biases present in AI training data, such as the preference for Americanised punctuation conventions like the em dash. Ultimately, the author highlights the paradoxical situation where human writers must now deliberately degrade their prose to avoid accusations of being a machine, even as flawed grammar-checking AIs police their text.