Reading Twitter now means constant vigilance against AI text, and it's exhausting
moonsandhues · x · 2026-10-08
QiaochuYuan laments that the most annoying part of reading Twitter now is constantly being on guard for AI-written text — his 'AI spidey sense' sometimes fires on sentences he otherwise believes are human. His verdict: disgusting to feel like a chunk of linguistic space has been permanently infected by the machines. A telling snapshot of how AI-generated content is degrading trust in everyday reading.
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