Writer's lament: in the AI era only communication counts as machines devour all ideas
akbirthko · x · 2026-10-14
- A shared reflection on writing in the AI era: the only thing a reader can see is whether you brought new understanding, and credit for originating research is now shared across the entire field.
- The reason: machines exploit all of our ideas at once, and in their thinking and regurgitating they even forget where the ideas came from.
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