Models absorb human creativity without consent, then label human-directed work as machine-made, creating a troubling double erasure of authorship. Every time someone asks an AI tool to draft an email, polish an essay or write a report, an invisible marker gets attached to the result, classifying it as “AI-generated.” It discounts the human who wrote the prompt, steered the revisions and approved the final version. It also sits on top of a deeper problem: these models learned to write by ingesting decades of human writing, […]

Models absorb human creativity without consent, then label human-directed work as machine-made, creating a troubling double erasure of authorship. Every time someone asks an AI…

As generative AI becomes embedded in research and publishing, the deeper challenge is preserving accountability for scholarly work.