NYT guest op-ed policy sparks debate: AI-rewritten text is no longer your voice
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-02
- Economist Paul Novosad endorses the NYT's guest op-ed policy that contributions must be in the author's own voice.
- He offers a framework: AI grammar checks preserve your voice and are fine, but AI writing or rewriting produces "AI-voice," which undermines a medium built on human voices.
- Boundary: fiction, op-eds, and arguably journalism should ban AI writing; product manuals and similar contexts don't care about voice.
- Academic articles remain uncertain — it likely depends on discipline; at today's quality, AI-written economics papers are noticeably worse than human writing.
Related event: Economist Slams NYT Policy Allowing AI-Written Guest Essays(4 posts)→
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