<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Someone recently asked me about an article they... > Someone recently asked me about an article they had decided was “AI generated” and wanted to understand my method. I told them they were unlikely to have encountered the method before, because the finished prose conceals most of the system that made it possible. As I explain in [[This Is AI Generated]], the phrase can be an accurate production note and still be an intellectually empty account of authorship. {{“AI generated” can describe a tool in the production stack while completely misdescribing the authorship of the work.}} [[reminders/Writing/AI Generated Can Misdescribe Authorship by Bryant McGill|∴]] A reader who sees only the final paragraphs cannot see the conceptual model, source history, rejected alternatives, durable quotations, or years of engineering against which every paragraph was judged. **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Someone recently asked me about an article they had decided was “AI generated” and wanted to understand my method. I told them they were unlikely to have encountered the method before, because the finished prose conceals most of the system that made it possible. As I explain in This Is AI Generated, the phrase can be an accurate production note and still be an intellectually empty account of authorship. “AI generated” can describe a tool in the production stack while completely misdescribing the authorship of the work. ∴ A reader who sees only the final paragraphs cannot see the conceptual model, source history, rejected alternatives, durable quotations, or years of engineering against which every paragraph was judged.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-someone-recently-asked-every-paragraph-judged ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->