54% of readers in a NYT study preferred AI-written articles over human ones.

Everyone's celebrating or panicking. Both wrong.

It tested AI vs. average unassisted human writing. Not AI vs. a human who's documented their patterns and co-writes systematically.

The 54% doesn't prove AI writes marginally better than humans. It proves AI writes better than humans who don't know what they're doing.

That's a different claim entirely.