As models improve, 'good writing' will decouple from human authorship, sparking 'stupid Veblen goods'
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-04
QiaochuYuan calls the discourse backlash against pangram, an AI-writing tool, bizarrely intense. LibDevelopment argues that as models improve, "good writing" will become orthogonal to human authorship, and enshrining today's taboos risks a future of "really stupid Veblen goods" — writing prized only for being human-made.
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