Paul Graham Prefers Grammar Errors Over AI-Written Emails
A one-line joke about a bad apostrophe turned into a small argument on X about whether human mistakes now read as proof of authenticity.
Paul Graham touched a live nerve on X with a very 2026 sentence: after seeing an email that used "it's" as a possessive, he wrote that his reaction was, "At least it's not AI." The joke landed because it flips an old complaint about sloppy writing into a new kind of reassurance. In this version of internet literacy, the typo can read as the human part.
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Paul Graham Prefers Grammar Errors Over AI-Written Emails
A one-line joke about a bad apostrophe turned into a small argument on X about whether human mistakes now read as proof of authenticity.
Paul Graham touched a live nerve on X with a very 2026 sentence: after seeing an email that used "it's" as a possessive, he wrote that his reaction was, "At least it's not AI." The joke landed because it flips an old complaint about sloppy writing into a new kind of reassurance. In this version of internet literacy, the typo can read as the human part.