Why we let AI write for us. It’s not really about saving time

We’re all using generative AI to write now. Articles, LinkedIn posts, emails, even the comments under other people’s LinkedIn posts. The volume of auto-generated prose is so vast it’s drowning the channels and exhausting whatever attention we have left. And it’s boring us. We’ve all learned to spot the tells by now, the stock phrases, the hollow transitions, the syntactic patterns that sound machine-like. So why do we keep doing it, at the risk of producing gray, flavorless mush that nobody actually wants to read? Why is it so hard to resist handing the machine a task we’re perfectly capable of doing ourselves? The usual explanation is time and laziness. We outsource because it’s the path of least resistance. Our appetite for creativity and our taste for doing things ourselves keep losing to plain inertia. Naturally, it flatters us more to say we’re simply too busy and buying back precious hours. Important, productive people insist AI lets them get so much more done. (Though if what comes out is worse, are you really more productive? If “more” keeps getting less good, is there actually more value?) {"blockType":"mv-promo-block","data":{"imageDesktopUrl":"https:\/\/images.fastcompa…