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Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social): The First Golden Age of AI writing is now over. For a brief period of time, many people were better off having Claude do a lot of their writing, because it is a pretty good writer & AI detectors were

L2 · PractitionerOpinion & Analysis@emollick.bsky.social· 8/31/2026

Practitioners need to adapt as AI writing patterns become more recognizable and less effective.

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Ethan Mollick declares the 'First Golden Age of AI writing' over as Claude's writing style becomes cliched and easily detectable.

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The First Golden Age of AI writing is now over. For a brief period of time, many people were better off having Claude do a lot of their writing, because it is a pretty good writer & AI detectors were bad Now ClaudeSpeak is cliched & suspect & annoying, and Pangram is well-known.

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