The Invisible Guardrail
On AI detection anxiety and the constraints we can’t see
Last week, the New York Times ran a piece cataloguing everything wrong with AI writing. The em dashes. The word “delve.” The relentless tricolons. The ghosts and whispers and quiet hums. Everything becoming a tapestry. The insistence that “it’s not X, it’s Y.”
The author has developed what he calls “a novel form of paranoia.” Every clunky metaphor sets h…
