Why We Let AI Write for Us

The majority of people are using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to write now. Articles, LinkedIn posts, emails and even the comments under other people’s LinkedIn posts. The volume of auto-generated prose is so vast it is drowning the channels and exhausting whatever attention we have left. And it is boring us. We have all learned to spot the tells by now, the stock phrases, the hollow transitions, the syntactic patterns that sound machine-like.

So, why do we keep doing it, at the risk of producing gray, flavorless mush that nobody actually wants to read? Why is it so hard to resist handing the machine a task we are perfectly capable of doing ourselves?

The usual explanation is time and laziness. We outsource because it is the path of least resistance. Our appetite for creativity and our taste for doing things ourselves keep losing to plain inertia. Naturally, it flatters us more to say we are simply too busy and buying back precious hours. Important, productive people insist AI lets them get so much more done. (Though if what comes out is worse, are you really more productive? If "more" keeps getting less good, is there actually more value?)

Please select this link to read the complete article from Fast Company.