For now, Ai writing is easy to spot, and the – perhaps unfair – conclusion readers will come to is that no effort was put into it.
Here’s a great article on the clues that show if an article received at least a little machine assistance. How to tell if writing is AI: The 6 elements of robot style on the Hunting The Muse site for writers calls out (among other things) excessive use of em-dashes, ‘forced sass’, buzzwords, clichéd phrases and formulaic sentence structures.
Now, in my opinion, there’s no problem with getting Ai writing assistance if it helps. We also know the search engines don’t have any problem with this. Suppose we came up with some world-changing original research and had it rewritten into ‘better’ English by ChatGPT. It might then be full of em-dashes, clichéd phrases and other giveaways, but it would still be world-changing original research.
In time, I expect machine-written content to become much better at learning its user’s style (if that’s what they want). But for now, it’s easy to spot, and the – perhaps unfair – conclusion that many readers will leap to is that the piece didn’t have any effort put into it.