Does AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward

An essay argues we've turned effort into a stand-in for morality, and that the EU's AI-writing watermark rule is the same old instinct in new form.

AI watermarks — The Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. Photo by acediscovery / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I'm fascinated by the range of human reactions to the increasing use of AI, especially when it comes to writing. A lot of people have made up their minds about it: It's garbage. It's evil. It's evil garbag…