Maybe AI Writing Is Bad Not From Missing Signals but Not Enough Smarts
jmugan · x · 2026-08-29
People attribute poor AI writing to the lack of an objective training signal for prose, unlike math or code. The author suggests another possibility: AI simply isn't smart enough yet to write succinctly and evocatively. It conveys information clearly, but expressing ideas in an interesting way may take more horsepower—as songwriters say so much in very few words.
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