The magazine and newspaper industry was chomped to pieces by the internet and chewed up in the great financial crisis. The survivors of the larger culling have learned to live in the new environment for now. But how much longer?
Recently, I have noticed the proliferation of clearly AI-authored text appearing under human-authored bylines. People who don’t use tools like Claude and ChatGPT have trouble recognizing it. But there’s a certain empty rhetorical snappiness to the prose that LLM-powered AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT generate. “One works by X, the other by Y,” or “The sequence matters because,” or “That point is load-bearing.” Or “I have to be straight with you.”
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