The mental tyranny of AI writing - by John R. Gallagher

An arduously long blog post

The mental tyranny of AI writing An arduously long blog post John R. Gallagher Mar 29, 2025 99 15 20 Share Introduction I’ve been reading some things that have gotten me suspicious they were written by AI. I got so suspicious that I thought a policy-based academic article had been written by AI—but the publication came out in 2019! Before I go further, let me say this feeling …this suspicion…makes me frustrated. I don’t like it. It makes me feel paranoid. What was pinging me to think the article was written by AI? It was this sentence: “AI can be classified into analytical, human-inspired, and

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