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But Cynthia Dunlop's survey on tech reader preferences has shown that people overwhelming dislike AI-written articles, preferring even "bad" human writing to "good" AI writing. And occasionally I'd feature something that turned out to read very strongly of AI-generated writing and internet commenters would call me out on it. Sometimes these egregiously AI-written articles were written by companies who spoke very passionately about temperate and responsible use of AI in communication. (That was disappointing).
Honestly, I can't stand reading AI-written prose either. It infuriated me to click on a random cool-sounding article in our feed just for the actual writing to grate. A waste of time.
