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It was once possible to identify a useful signal from whether an article was well written. 

By reducing the ability to judge people based on how well they write online, AI is a social shift on par with the abolition of the thou/you distinction. 

It's a huge deal if you can't quickly judge a text based on eg how many small writing errors it has, and instead have to engage with the ideas before dismissing them as worthless.

Instead of going through that cognitively-demanding process, I predict that we’re increasingly going to rely on taste as a signifier of quality: does the website Look like other websites you might trust? is the writing Style similar to writers you trust?

Taste differs from quality because reasonable people can have different tastes. Indeed it is already a signifier of social status. Expect that to become more entrenched.

It was once possible to identify a useful signal from whether an article was well written. 

By reducing the ability to judge people based on how well they write online, AI is a social shift on par with the abolition of the thou/you distinction. 

It's a huge deal if you can't quickly judge a text based on eg how many small writing errors it has, and instead have to engage with the ideas before dismissing them as worthless.

Instead of going through that cognitively-demanding process, I predict that we’re increasingly going to rely on taste as a signifier of quality: does the website Look like other websites you might trust? is the writing Style similar to writers you trust?

Taste differs from quality because reasonable people can have different tastes. Indeed it is already a signifier of social status. Expect that to become more entrenched. 

https://www.thediff.co/archive/ais-impact-on-the-written-word-is-vastly-overstated/