Economist Paul Novosad flags motte-and-bailey in AI writing debates
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-01
Paul Novosad argues there's a motte-and-bailey in AI writing debates: using AI to fix grammar and idioms is defensible, but writing entire sections of text is a different matter. People make good cases for the first, then pretend it's the same as the second.
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