Economist criticizes NYT's policy allowing AI-written guest contributions
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-02
Economist Paul Novosad argues NYT's guest contributor policy that permits AI writing is a mistake: it replaces the author's voice with AI's and lets slop producers clog channels, making good writing harder to find.
Related event: Economist Slams NYT Policy Allowing AI-Written Guest Essays(4 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- AI doom debate: is a single dominant lab the threat or the safeguard? — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-02
- UChicago bans tech in humanities core classes, adds analog writing requirement for all — DynamicWebPaige · 2026-10-02
- davidad: Disassembling Mercury sans AI progress would take centuries, a bizarre counterfactual — davidad · 2026-10-02
- Narayanan essay: big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? — random_walker · 2026-10-02
- Survey: 92% of Gen Z Learn With AI, but 57% Struggle to Apply It at Work — fortune · 2026-10-02
- Pew's Digital Twins Show Large Errors; Just Asking Frontier Models Is Far More Accurate at 1/1000th the Cost — paulnovosad · 2026-10-02