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Comment by westcoast49

The deeper question is why we register it as bad.

It has the "same voice" you say. But that is also, kind of, the same as saying that there is no humanity behind it, no identity, no "mind".

For lexical articles, like text given as an answer to a single prompt or question, AI writing can be excellent. Because, there we do want an answer that represents the average or combination of all human knowledge about the topic. We're not looking for personality, or another mind.

When we read long-form text, on the other hand, what we are engaging in, is mind-transfer. We then expect there to be a recognizable mind at the other end. And this is, in my opinion, what typically falls apart when we ask an AI to write a complete long-form text.

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