No one wants their writing to be the subject of ridicule and disdain, but that’s the lot of many academic writers, whose turgid, clumsy, lumpy prose is deemed largely unapproachable by a general ...

“It doesn’t feel like something I’d write, but it also doesn’t not feel like something I’d write,” a North Carolina State University student said about their work integrating prose from an artificial ...

The critic William Hazlitt (1778–1830), known best in his lifetime for his writing on Shakespeare, was a jack of all trades and a master of none too few, trying his deft hand at painting, philosophy, ...

Q: Hi Dave, I’m a high school teacher and am curious about all of the AI writing tools now available. Is there a way to identify when text is written by a program rather than a person? How accurate is ...

Judd Apatow on why he writes for the screen instead of the page: “I’ve never been able to write prose well. I’ve certainly sat down and attempted to write short stories, but I get up from the chair ...

We’ve all felt the creeping suspicion that something we’re reading was written by a large language model — but it’s remarkably difficult to pin down. For a few months last year, everyone became ...