I think the style essay akin to a punchy, TED-talk style persuasive essay is dead.
Whether or not this author wrote it themselves (I strongly suspect at least an AI editor), the specific style that was, for a time, very attractive has become the hallmark of AI-written prose; and, while the content doesn’t seem wrong from a particular view, it also leaves a taste of waste to me - waste that I spent that time reading something they didn’t write, full of -isms that aren’t theirs, when the thesis could have padded out far less paper.
The word count feels unearned, even if the content is fine.
It's one thing to have AI-written software, where the code isn't the consumable; and quite another to have AI-written essays that are intended to engage a human's critical thinking.
t-writescode · · focus · HN ↗
Whether or not this author wrote it themselves (I strongly suspect at least an AI editor), the specific style that was, for a time, very attractive has become the hallmark of AI-written prose; and, while the content doesn’t seem wrong from a particular view, it also leaves a taste of waste to me - waste that I spent that time reading something they didn’t write, full of -isms that aren’t theirs, when the thesis could have padded out far less paper.
The word count feels unearned, even if the content is fine.
kibibu · · focus · HN ↗
It's one thing to have AI-written software, where the code isn't the consumable; and quite another to have AI-written essays that are intended to engage a human's critical thinking.
I am very tired of it all.