Economist: AI writing volumes will inevitably crowd human readers out of equilibrium
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-22
Economist Paul Novosad lays out a slippery-slope argument about AI-generated writing: once AI pushes text volume up 50x, evaluating each piece "on its own merits" becomes impossible, and people will simply have AI read and review AI writing. In any medium, he argues, AI and human writing cannot coexist in equilibrium — human readers will inevitably get crowded out.
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