A Journal Asked Allison Stanger to Rewrite Her Article Because It Sounded Like AI
Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?
After a professional journal accepted her article, the editor asked Allison Stanger to submit a new draft "in her voice" because some sentences read like AI. Stanger, who wrote the piece across 10 revisions with Claude and other LLMs, argues that analytical writing should be judged by its quality, not its unverifiable origin. She points to the Académie Goncourt pulling Thélyson Orélien's novel over detector results that ranged from human to 100 percent AI.
By draft 10, I could not have said where the machine's contribution stopped and mine began.