There is a new genre: writers describing their struggle to produce words, something AI can never experience. It’s really boring. Monocle editor Andrew Tuck at least compares AI-assisted writing to taking Viagra, and notes in passing that he has human assistants to clean up his copy.
- Monocle editor Andrew Tuck caught a regular contributor submitting an AI-assisted pitch, flagged by a checker as 70% machine-generated and confirmed by telltale spelling and punctuation patterns.
- A fellow magazine editor confessed to using AI as a warm-up tool to "get going" before writing, a compromise Tuck treats as its own kind of problem.
- The column is a reminder that the struggle to find ideas is not a bug in the writing process but the process itself, and outsourcing it has costs that show.
