AI ate the world's content, the lawyers arrived late, the criminals arrived first, and the tsunami — as it always has — is busy rewriting the coastline while everyone argues about who owned the beach.
There was a time — a simpler, more innocent time — when you could use the word "trump" without half the room reaching for their MAGA hats and the other half reaching for their blood pressure medication.
The obsessive hunt for"AI tells" in writing - forbidden words, suspicious structure, too-perfect grammar - is making editors worse at their jobs and writers worse at their craft. We're penalizing competence while AI adapts. It's time to judge writing on what actually matters.