Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
Just as the community adopted the term "hallucination" to describe additive errors, we must now codify its far more insidious counterpart: semantic ablation.
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When an author uses AI for "polishing" a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation.
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The result is a "JPEG of thought".
