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Kafke  ·  3576 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If An Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Know?

The difference between a machine and a human is pretty clear; human writing has a tone.

Both of those samples are nearly identical because it's technical facts. Why bother with technical facts anyway? I certainly don't want to read a long article on something I could just read wikipedia for. I read stuff written by people because I want their opinion. And I try to reflect that through my writing as well.

But this ties into something I've been thinking about a lot. Why the discrimination? If a robot can write as well as a human, why be picky about who writes? You don't say "Well women write worse, so we'll let them write because they need jobs too."