Language and the Future: How Does AI Copy You?

PART ONE: How does AI copy you?

If you’re a writer, AI copies your content and your style.

But let’s go a bit deeper. Suppose you learned journalism from reading the New York Times. You absorbed their way of stringing phrases and clauses and sentences together.

In a loose sense, you became an AI which copied the Times. So now AI will copy your copy.

And you’ll sink and vanish into a vast sea of that style of writing—a sea made hugely more extensive by machine AI.

So…developing your own unique st...