--- title: I can’t bear to read AI-generated prose | daily.dev description: A personal reflection on the psychological aversion to reading AI-generated prose. The author acknowledges the position is likely irrational — the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-can-t-bear-to-read-ai-generated-prose-hcqk7o4al twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I can’t bear to read AI-generated prose | daily.dev og:description: A personal reflection on the psychological aversion to reading AI-generated prose. The author acknowledges the position is likely irrational — the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-can-t-bear-to-read-ai-generated-prose-hcqk7o4al og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HcQK7O4al.png og:image:alt: I can’t bear to read AI-generated prose og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I can’t bear to read AI-generated prose **[Surfing Complexity](https://daily.dev/sources/surfingcomplexity)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal reflection on the psychological aversion to reading AI-generated prose. The author acknowledges the position is likely irrational — the informational value of text shouldn't depend on its origin — but admits that suspecting AI authorship kills their motivation to read. They draw a distinction between querying LLMs for answers versus consuming AI-written documents, and frame it as a perceived violation of an implicit social contract between writer and reader. Despite expecting LLM writing quality to improve, the author finds something fundamentally 'soulless' about machine-generated prose. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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