Stephen Downes

Short article with a good point. The standard argument against which Tim Moon is responding goes something like this: "AI use replaces humans. It removes the struggle that makes writing writing, the effort that makes thinking thinking." But, as Moon writes, the effort is a proxy, and a bad one at that. "Plenty of effortful writing is effortfully empty, and plenty of effortful writers never learned to think, only to perform the appearance of having thought." Good writing reveals the writer: "a hunch, a half-remembered line from Augustine, a suspicion that the standard reading is too neat."