[armchairhacker]

I think a while ago I commented something along the lines of "let me know when we see a successful book/article/speech which gets revealed to be largely AI-generated". And that hasn't happened yet: AI-generated content has always been noticeable and generally considered bad ("was X written by ChatGPT?" is an insult).

But I know AI is already being used to assist human writers, not just with boring emails and speeches, but creative works like articles and books.

Moreover, if AI ends up writing something decent, it won't be recognized as AI-written. And the human "author" probably won't be quick to reveal so; due to the controversy surrounding AI, and because then people would over-scrutinize it and just point out mistakes which even a human would make (or really minor opinionated things they call mistakes just to have a point).

Going back though, if AI ever does get to the point where it can replicate human talent, eventually we're going to know. If GPT-5 exists and is able to replicate human-quality writing, it's only a matter of time before someone reveals it, or a competitor catches up and then they reveal it.

[famouswaffles]

LLMs can hit human quality writing just fine (not professional yet). The top LLMs today are all deliberately trained to sound bland, robotic and uninspired with rlhf etc. It's just the default voice, not some weakness of LLMs and it's not very hard to make them not sound like that.

[loudandskittish]

Indeed, I've come across more instances of things that were supposedly AI-generated that turned out to have been made by a human being...