Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation.

(We can measure semantic ablation through entropy decay. By running a text through successive AI "refinement" loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses.)

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

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@cstross whatever it is we need lots more of it #ablative tense