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Diary-writers across history have expressed the sense of relief that writing from the heart can bring. Could English essays ...

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. At the center of many of these ...

Nothing seems to make literary-minded people angrier than an author taking credit for writing they didn’t do. A few weeks ago, Hachette canceled the U.S. release of a novel, Shy Girl, following a ...

As AI makes inroads into the worlds of editorial and media, websites are scrambling to establish ground rules for its usage. This week, Wikipedia banned the use of AI-generated text by its editors — ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Autocomplete suggestions are perhaps one of the most annoying “useful” tools for writing: increasingly integrated into anything online that requires you to input text, autocomplete harnesses ...

We are drowning in a sea of abysmal, artificially generated prose. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s seeping into inboxes, infecting publications and ruining the internet (again). A favorite ...

Are you feeling lost among the AI slop? You might want to major in English. Humanities skills, once undervalued, are now in demand in AI-driven markets. Universities are rethinking how they teach ...

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...