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Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’

  • Written by Ryan Leack, Assistant Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’An ancient disk shows the priestess Enheduanna, third figure from the right, during a ritual.Mefman00/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

I teach writing and rhetoric, but my college students and I often overlook a surprisingly complicated question: What is writing?

And can artificial intelligence really do it?

Many people think of “writing” as...

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