Do Readers Secretly Prefer AI's "Voice" To Human Writing?

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Do Readers Secretly Prefer AI's "Voice" To Human Writing?

Plenty of people assume that because something is written by a person (like this newsletter!), it’s automatically better on some deep, almost spiritual level than AI writing.

But is that really true? And more to the point for people who create content, do readers actually prefer human writing to the AI kind?

A lot of human writing is self indulgent. It’s about the person writing the piece, not the person reading it.

AI doesn’t care about itself. Does that make its writing easier—and perhaps more enjoyable—to read?

A new article from the NY Times covers AI’s unique “voice” in detail. But for me, what kept coming up was the thought, “Yes, this is all well and good. But do people actually care if tons of stuff is AI written—and if it sounds a bit formulaic?”

Maybe, instead of this rambly human intro, you’d actually prefer that ChatGPT write a simple, bullet-point intro to the newsletter summarizing a few key points about the NYTimes article and linking to my video.

Speaking of, here’s my video breaking down the key points and concepts in the piece—and sharing my thoughts on what really make writing “good” vs “bad.”