Everyone's scrambling to hide AI fingerprints like emdashes, certain phrasings, structural patterns. They're treating it like plagiarism, like getting caught means losing credibility.
When someone shares an article, a video or anything they liked, it is telling of a person - about how they think and what resonates with them. The same thing will be true for publishing AI generated content.
Magazine editors have done this for over a century. Writers submit pieces, editors give briefs, reshape narratives, kill entire articles. Nobody questions the editor's authorship of the magazine's voice. The value is in their judgment and direction, not their typing speed.
Software has been upgrading the abstraction of creation every era. Microsoft Word handled spelling, you stopped worrying about typos. Grammarly handled grammar, you stopped worrying about sentence construction. AI handles composition, you stop worrying about the writing itself.
Congratulations. You've been promoted from writer to editor-in-chief.
But are you ready for the job? Do you have a unique POV about the world? Interesting inputs to feed your instant AI writer?
Over the next few years, virtually everything will be written by AI and it will have new patterns if not emdashes. Embrace it. What you should infact do, is think deeply about the quality of your ideas, the inputs you provide and the developing judgement to publish it. Because LLMs make metacognition tangible at scale, thinking through things and developing a POV is now accessible.
The real question isn't "can people tell AI wrote this?" It's "do you have something worth saying?"