The Author Is Not the Writer: Why AI-Assisted Writing Doesn't Erase Authorship
One common criticism of AI-assisted writing is that it disrespects the reader — and that there is no real authorship behind it.
The assumption is simple: if AI helped write it, the author avoided the work and therefore is not really the author.
I think this gets the problem backwards.
Used lazily, AI can produce shallow, fluent text. Used rigorously, it can become part of the author’s quality process.
The deeper problem is that most debates rarely define what authorship means, what writing is for, or what respect for the reader actually requires. They measure the wrong thing. They obsess over the tool instead of asking what is actually being discussed.
That matters because the reader is the person most often forgotten in these debates.
The reader does not care who suffered most during the writing process. The reader gives the author something valuable: time and attention. Respecting the reader...
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