AI Slop: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose
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- Human-generated text reflects authentic expert thought and subtle word choices that carry philosophical significance, unlike AI-generated approximations.
- Knowing that a text is human-generated provides meta-epistemic evidence of its quality, similar to the value of journal imprimatur.
- AI can be used for copyediting only if done actively (e.g., typing revisions manually) to preserve rather than blur the writer's distinctive phrasing.
- The argument is bounded: if AI surpasses human expertise in word choice, it may no longer apply, but for now, human prose is preferable.