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Human Writers Who Rage Against A.I.

To the Editor: Re “The ‘Shy Girl’ Fiasco Shows How Readers Can Lose Faith in Writers,” by Andrea Bartz (Opinion guest essay, March 26): Over 40 years ago, my mother traveled from the...

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Human Writers Who Rage Against A.I.

April 7, 2026,

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To the Editor:

Re “

The ‘Shy Girl’ Fiasco Shows How Readers Can Lose Faith in Writers

,” by Andrea Bartz (Opinion guest essay, March 26):

Over 40 years ago, my mother traveled from the United States to visit me and her new grandson in a top-notch Victorian-era hospital in London. Impressed with the general tranquillity on the maternity ward, run for the most part by nurses and midwives, she further observed, “And there’s no canned music in the elevator.”

A.I. has come to be the canned music in the elevator, colorless content thrust upon us whether we like it or not. Long, bland synopses of email threads I have previously read, absorbed and, by some miracle, remember, intrude, uninvited at the head of an email. Also included are recommendations for short, bland responses that sound like someone who is not me.

I choose the words I use with great care, and I know how to spell them. For whatever they’re worth, they will at least have come from someone with a beating heart and soul. Words can’t come from the heart if the writer doesn’t have one. They can only mimic heartfelt.

Margaret McGirr

Greenwich, Conn.

To the Editor:

At Pushcart Press, we annually receive thousands of poems, essays and stories for our Pushcart Prize. We can usually tell on first reading if the words are generated by a nuts-and-bolts player or a human being with love, wonder, heart and soul. As backup, we inform senders that we will charge them with fraud if discovered to be fake people.

Decades ago, when all of this tech takeover started, we noticed that some gear heads proclaimed that their mission, somehow universally intended, was to replace mere carbon-based sorts like us.

And here we are on the verge of A.I. doing just that for a huge profit for a handful of the power-mad. The legal option, for publishers at least, is to take them to court for intentional fraud.

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