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It's not remotely beautifully written. It reads as if someone prompted "Write an article called I Miss Terry Pratchett, and write it in his style."

It's full of attempted Pratchettisms that, if you're paying attention, make no sense.

It's on a blog where almost every post is about AI.

It's the opposite of Terry's warm, intelligent, humanist writing and an insult to his name.

I suppose in the AI era, we need to assume AI. For me, I feel like 'attempted Pratchettisms' might well be the result of a human writing. It's hard to be as good as Pratchett but understandable to write a post like this trying to be.

That is, with ambiguity, I try to assume the best. I expect that is somewhat naïve.

I genuinely read (and still do) the blog as a human voice. I don't think writing about AI is enough to assume that a blog is authored by AI.

If the AI-generated content doesn't push out all the good stuff, the absolute flood of accusing everything written everywhere as being written by AI will.
"a kind of paper that already looks guilty"
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I fully disagree. This felt human.
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