How dare you - "Was that AI generated?" An exquisitely intriguing interrogative, and one that perhaps reflects the ongoing socio-linguistic evolution of contemporary digital discourse. In years gone by, when an individual encountered an argument possessing an inconvenient degree of evidential robustness, rhetorical coherence, or merely more paragraphs than their attention span could comfortably accommodate, the customary response was to dismiss it as a "wall of text" or "word salad." Today, however, we appear to inhabit a more algorithmically conscious communicative paradigm. The fashionable rejoinder is no longer "word salad" but the infinitely more zeitgeist-compatible: "Was that AI generated?" The underlying functionality remains delightfully unchanged. Rather than engaging with the substantive epistemological architecture, argumentative granularity, or evidential underpinnings of the text itself, one simply pivots toward speculative authorship attribution. The argument is neither refuted nor rebutted; it is merely subjected to a provenance audit. In essence, what was once "I can't be bothered to address that" has undergone a process of technological rebranding and emerged as "Aha! A computer may have assisted." A remarkable feat of conversational innovation, really. The conclusion remains conspicuously invariant: when the response to an argument focuses exclusively on who—or what—wrote it, rather than the content itself, one begins to suspect the criticism may be compensating for a shortage of counterargument. Or, to employ the modern vernacular: that's a lot of AI accusations for someone who hasn't actually addressed the point.
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