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Agility Robotics AI lead Chris Paxton argues AI writing feels inferior, while Susan Zhang says utilitarian text will be automated

Paxton acknowledged his own bias as an avid writer.

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Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton#1838inTech

@suchenzang The ironic thing is that I still find AI writing to be *worse* in some ineffable way, as compared to human writing

but I do love writing and maybe this is a bias of mine

Susan Zhang@suchenzang

ilya was ahead of his time, but he (or we, as readers) might've miscalculated the side effect of freely-available-slop-intelligence now putting premiums on "the human touch"

it was either never about intelligence or always about intelligence, just not in commonly measurable forms

or perhaps it had nothing to do with AI at all, and was more about who to surround yourself with

transactional relationships based on mutual-assurance of being in similarly "intelligent" company...

...or something deeper?

8:01 PM · Jun 7, 2026 · 1.4K Views

/Tech12h ago

Agility Robotics AI lead Chris Paxton argues AI writing feels inferior, while Susan Zhang says utilitarian text will be automated

Paxton acknowledged his own bias as an avid writer.

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#306

Original post

Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton#1838inTech

@suchenzang The ironic thing is that I still find AI writing to be *worse* in some ineffable way, as compared to human writing

but I do love writing and maybe this is a bias of mine

Susan Zhang@suchenzang

ilya was ahead of his time, but he (or we, as readers) might've miscalculated the side effect of freely-available-slop-intelligence now putting premiums on "the human touch"

it was either never about intelligence or always about intelligence, just not in commonly measurable forms

or perhaps it had nothing to do with AI at all, and was more about who to surround yourself with

transactional relationships based on mutual-assurance of being in similarly "intelligent" company...

...or something deeper?

8:01 PM · Jun 7, 2026 · 1.4K Views

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Susan Zhang@suchenzang

@chris_j_paxton the premium of human touch! for lovers of writing, readers of smut, but not for contract lawyers, alas

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Susan Zhang@suchenzang

@chris_j_paxton writing as art will remain art

writing as pure utilitarian conduits for synchronizing information flow between biological humans on the other hand...

Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton

@suchenzang I kinda figured it was just that there are limits to LfD but not to reinforcement learning, and you can't really RL your way to a good essay or novel chapter because the success condition is less clear

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Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton

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Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton

@suchenzang At least so far, AI writing has the exact same problem as AI coding, which is that it's far too verbose for the limited information content

Susan Zhang@suchenzang

@chris_j_paxton writing as art will remain art

writing as pure utilitarian conduits for synchronizing information flow between biological humans on the other hand...

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