AI rewriter turns 'the report was late' into a sycophantic masterpiece
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-10
Economist Paul Novosad shares a funny example: an AI rewriting tool turned the plain sentence 'The report were late' into 'It wasn't just late. It was a masterclass in what happens when we forget that behind every deadline is a human being' — mocking the over-the-top, sycophantic prose style of AI rewriters.
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