Fortune Argues AI Writing Disclosure Should Be a Spectrum, Not Yes/No
shdw_0x0 · reddit · 2026-09-30
A Reddit discussion of a Fortune piece arguing the question "Did you use AI?" has become too simplistic. There is a huge difference between brainstorming or fact-checking with AI, polishing your own draft, having it rewrite sections, and prompting it to generate an entire article—lumping all of these together as "AI-written" makes disclosure meaningless.
The author proposes a self-reported scale ranging from fully human-written to AI-generated with minimal editing. The poster agrees the key question is not whether AI was involved but how much of the actual writing came from it, and asks the community: would standardized disclosure improve transparency, or just become another labeling system people ignore?
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