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2026-05-11 17:36 UTC
Tennyson on genAI:
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null
Dead perfection; no more
(Or rather, Micah Nathan writing in the Guardian about what AI writing reminds them of!)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai
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@discoursology@social.coop 2026-05-11 17:37
It continues: “By contrast, student-written fiction is gloriously flawed, a struggle on the page between what the author is trying to say and what’s actually being said. The prose stumbles in a way reminiscent of a foal learning how to walk: even in their trembling legs I see hints of future grace. Such clumsiness is necessary; its absence would be proof of the foal never having learned to walk.”