AI writing is "bad"... so now what?

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https://youtu.be/H_c6MWk7PQc?si=e2CPIPW-en4Yp1S8
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/overfitting
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-writing-is-mid
https://maxread.substack.com/p/will-ai-writing-ever-be-good
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/ai-at-work-is-here-now-comes-the-hard-part
https://crowsneststpete.com/2025/10/21/students-say-they-use-ai-because-theyre-overworked-not-because-theyre-lazy/
https://edsource.org/2025/artificial-intelligence-isnt-ruining-education-its-exposing-whats-already-broken/733854
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/how-to-break-free-of-our-19th-century-factory-model-education-system/256881/ https://www.academia.edu/26190112/Literacyeducation_for_the_21ST_Century_Its_Time_to_Close_the_Factory
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11830699/
https://www.edweek.org/technology/rising-use-of-ai-in-schools-comes-with-big-downsides-for-students/2025/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/people-outsourcing-their-thinking-ai/685093/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661316300985
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2022.908261/full
https://ctl.duke.edu/ai-ethics-learning-toolkit/does-ai-harm-critical-thinking/
https://www.fastcompany.com/91385635/ai-students-reading-books-literacy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/reading-crisis-solution-literature-personal-passion/685461/
https://substack.com/@pointofdeparture/note/c-194752169?r=47xun&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/what-writers-really-do-when-they-write

0:00 - intro
3:59 - is ai writing bad?
15:31 - why do people use ai
27:07 - ai effects on the brain
36:32 - conclusion