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Alberto Romero's avatar

Honored to be the subject of this amazing analysis, Nick! Superb explanations (you praise me too much 🙏🏻🙏🏻). I've tried and failed to put into words what you just described so well here. Important topic and great advice for young writers who want to know how to tap into their uniqueness as humans in the age of AI.

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Nigel P. Daly's avatar

Thanks for the Sardinha synopsis and interesting insights into AI writing. As an ELF business communications teacher and applied linguistics researcher interested in L2 writing and genAI, I resonated with a number of your observations and you further clarified the research territory, too. I liked your analysis of Romero's writing, though that is more of a narrative genre not so applicable to most business and academic communications. I have recently analyzed default writings from GPT, Claude, and Gemini in more of a research writing context and specifically looking at readability from lexical and syntax complexity perspectives since so many L2 English speaking researchers are using ChatGPT to write up their research. but it was good that you helped me take off my blinders and consider other aspects of writing which I will focus on later. I have noticed and therefore have been recently interested in "AI-generated ... exhibit significant differences, with .... a higher density of information-carrying features" -- which makes it difficult to read. ChatGPT was the worst for this. :P

I enjoy your posts. Keep up the great work.

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