Clean, precise prose is now a liability. Non-native English speakers and autistic writers are being flagged as AI because they write too well. Meanwhile, the actual bots are getting sloppier on purpose, reports Emma Alpern in New York Magazine. Glad this is getting more attention.
- Non-native English speakers, autistic writers, and people who simply write well are being flagged as AI by colleagues, editors, publishers, and automated detectors, sometimes with real professional consequences.
- AI detectors trained on formal writing corpora are biased against Commonwealth-educated writers and neurodivergent people whose precise, structured prose predates ChatGPT by decades.
- The deeper irony: ChatGPT may write the way it does partly because it was trained on text written by autistic people, then that same style is used to accuse them of fraud.
