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AI Writing Hasn't Overwhelmed Us...Yet (Axios, Megan Morrone)www.axios.com/2025/10/14/ai-generated-writing-humans

497 sats \ 11 comments \ @denlillaapan 12h BooksAndArticles

oh, how I love this lady's name/nym.

Also, my recent encounter with AI-generated content masquerading as humans writing good stuff (#1256107) aside, it seems a lot of content is still human. About half and half:

I'm seeing it all the time, and avid readers/experienced writers can usually feel when a text isn't quite human. It's because AI-generated text is CRAPPY, BORING, BLAND, UNINTERESTING. There's rarely playfulness, the sentences are of a few recognizable structures, the em dashes are obvious give-aways, and there's barely anything spicy or interesting.

Just bland (Like most humans!)

Here's the takeaway from Axios:

The big picture: A 2022 report from Europol estimated that 90% of online content would be generated by AI by 2026. According to Graphite's analysis of 65,000 URLs that were posted online between 2020 and 2025, the percentage of AI-generated articles rose sharply after ChatGPT's launch in 2023. The percentage of AI-generated articles in this data set briefly surpassed human-written articles in November 2024, but the two have stayed roughly equal since.

"The bottom line: For now, humans still want to read content that is written mostly by humans."

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31 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 12h

I'm curious if you have encountered any examples of writing that was enjoyable AND AI generated.

I'm trying to think of one and can't, but it's possible I wrongly assumed something I enjoyed was written by a human when in actuality it was written by someone else.

@justin_shocknet posted something early this summer that he used AI generate and it was actually pretty good. But I can't find it now.

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 10h

can't think of one... I'm sure it's out there

102 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 11h

#1008583

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 11h

Yes, that was it! Thank you.

14 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10h

Eh, it takes a special kind of optimist to look at the graph and conclude "AI writing hasn't overwhelmed us yet"

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 9h

I was surprised to see it was "only" 52%... would have guessed well into the 70s.

9 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8h

TBH I am not even sure how they could possibly measure this reliably, and thus don't really trust the numbers at face value.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan OP 7h

I didn't read the full study (I've got a life? not really, but you know)... but they indexed some 65,000 English-speaking articles published 2020-2025.

add: Chat and Grok agree:

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6h

You know my brain is addled when my brain auto-converts "shift post" to "shit post"

9 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 11h

I'm subscribed to Marketing Examples and this reminded me of his example of "CRAPPY, BORING, BLAND, UNINTERESTING" AI writing:

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10h

I once used the phrase "unless you've been living under a rock" and got accused of being AI because of it.