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> Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

> Nowadays every business in America says how warm it is and how much it cares — loan companies, supermarkets, hamburger chains.

Guess which one is AI and which one is a quote from Martin Amis.



Without looking, I’m guessing one of these was cherry-picked from Amis and one was plucked nearly at random from LinkedIn.

The writing style AI uses has its place, but not as _every sentence_. That’s what is exasperating. At the same time, I’m happy that I can still at least identify AI prose of more-than-trivial length.


both are Amis




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