Rachel Thomas threads zetalyrae: why 'the ideas are mine, the writing is AI' is wrong
math_rachel · x · 2026-10-28
Rachel Thomas opens a thread quoting zetalyrae's core claim: "People think 'the ideas are mine, the writing is the AI' — they feed the AI rambling bullet points it massages into a blog post or paper. But they are wrong, because writing is thinking." The thread unpacks the debate over outsourcing thought to AI writers.
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