A Turning Point in AI Writing

There was a time--a more innocent age--when you could read an op-ed in a major newspaper and confidently say that a human had written it. Hold on to the memory of that for as long as you can. This week, after the billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller published an editorial in criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, his onetime protégé, readers began to notice some familiar tics of AI writing. According to Pangram, the AI-detection tool, the op-ed was 100 percent AI-generated. That in itself was not so shocking. AI writing has regularly snuck into mainstream outlets, and especially newspaper op-ed pages, despite policies against it.