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Beware the Ready-Made Op-Ed

The Wall Street Journal’s AI faux pas reignites a longtime debate about the art of writing.
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A Wall Street Journal opinion piece from billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller went viral this week—but not because of readers’ insatiable appetite for 1,300-word missives on the bond market. Rather, readers noticed the essay bore several hallmarks of AI writing. In a statement to NOTUS, Druckenmiller confirmed that he wrote the piece using AI, adding that he’s “not embarrassed by it.” The Journal’s editorial page editor Paul Gigot doubled down, telling NOTUS that “AI is a fact of modern life,” and arguing that the op-ed was representative of Druckenmiller’s point of view.

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Jack Kubinec is a reporter at The Dispatch, currently based in New York City and covering artificial intelligence. Before joining The Dispatch, he reported on crypto, most recently at Fortune Magazine. He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in sociology. When he’s not writing about AI, he is probably enjoying the outdoors or watching a Buffalo Bills game. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.

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