Some writing tasks are easy or repetitive, and it makes sense to outsource them to AI. Others deserve your time and attention ...

X is experimenting with a new way for AI to write Community Notes. The company is testing a new "collaborative notes" feature that allows human writers to request an AI-written Community Note. It's ...

For some people, writing comes naturally. It’s how they make sense of the world. For others, it’s an acquired skill. I fall ...

ChatGPT-style AI gives itself away by increasing in consistency, while human writing remains erratic throughout. The limited context window of most consumer-facing Large Language Models (LLMs) is one ...

If there is one place that AI seems to have found work, it’s in corporate press offices. According to a new study published in the journal Patterns, which provides a comprehensive review of writing ...

I still think about the feedback I got on one of my first history essays in high school: “good writing, but you rely too much ...

AI models follow certain structural rules when generating text. This can make it easier to identify their writing. They tend towards contrasts, for example: "It's not X -- it's Y." The past few years ...

Scott Z. Burns tried to use AI to write a “Contagion” sequel as shared in the illuminating new podcast “What Could Go Wrong?” In Hollywood, there seem to be two camps when it comes to AI. Some preach ...

When it comes to creative writing, score one for the humans over the machines. For now, anyway. New research finds that ...

“A I was used to improve clarity and grammar” has become the go-to disclaimer in academic publishing. It’s meant to reassure. It doesn’t. Instead, it cloaks uncertainty in the language of transparency ...

Apps that purport to spot AI-generated text have a trust issue. The solution may be more transparency about what they find. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...