People are falsely accused of using AI for writing

When Jared Hewitt’s colleague claimed last winter that Hewitt had used AI to write an incident report, she did so publicly. “And I work in a daycare center, so she insulted me in front of children,” he says. The colleague read the document aloud and pointed to the words Side by side And awkward as evidence of machine-generated influence. “I don’t write casually, but much more seriously and precisely,” he says. “And I paid the price for living in a ChatGPT society.”

It wasn’t the first time Hewitt’s prose had been classified as AI, and he thinks he knows why. He stutters and can speak continuously while typing. It’s a luxury that he takes full advantage of: “Once I start writing, I can’t really stop.” He works like a chatbot…