AI Keeps Getting Better. Why Is Its Writing Still So Bad?

Despite rapid advances in math and coding, AI still struggles to produce prose that doesn’t “read” like AI. I have noticed that a giveaway of AI-generated prose is wordiness. Having evaluated leading models (e.g. Opus and Astra) for writing, none of them have impressed me. The prose is wordy and bad. It lacks the effortless, unforced flow of quality human writing. It’s not so much that quality human writing is simple or terse, but that each word serves a function, irrespective of length. Even in a cathedral, each piece of the architecture serves a role, just as each brick does in a modest building. By comparison, AI writing adds words that offer no value. I made a post detailing how AI adds extra words to a short writing sample. It cannot just get to the point. So my summary: 1. Pangram is scary-accurate in my experience. Even websites and services that purport to fool Pangram can fail to do so. It can flag AI content extremely well, even when it’s not that obvious what gives it away.…