AI Writing Tell: Over-Assigning Agency to Inanimate Objects
dreamwieber · x · 2026-09-17
Ethan Mollick notes a tell of AI writing: over-assigning agency and action to inanimate objects, e.g. "the code knows it now" or "the plan remembers". A replier adds that it's a fitting quirk given text is the essence of AI.
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