"I'm one of those authors whose books AI ate for lunch a few years back. At some point I might get a check to pay me for a dozen years' work on the three books it stole, but really, there's no way to compensate for the fallout. AI seems to think no, it can't think, only shuffle what real people thought that a machine can write as well as a person can."
"I taught at Columbia Journalism School for 10 years, and was surprised to learn from a second-semester student that a first-semester professor had forbidden the use of the semicolon. It was sloppy, he said. Evidence of an indecisive mind. A better writer would find a more definitive way to punctuate the space between two thoughts. He was tenured. I was an adjunct and surprised to find myself in the classroom at all, so I did what any decent writer does and succumbed to self-doubt."
AI systems trained on human material incorporated stylistic and punctuation habits, influencing chatbot output and altering language conventions. Many creators lost control of their work when their books were used without meaningful compensation. Machines cannot think; they recombine human ideas and sometimes compromise the tools and standards people rely on. Academic attitudes toward punctuation vary; one tenured professor forbade the semicolon as evidence of indecision, leading to uncertainty among adjunct instructors. Personal practice favored ear-based, musical phrasing and defended semicolon use for nuanced connections while prioritizing clarity.
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