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AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose

Eric Schwitzgebel · 15 Jul 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Philosophy journals should want human-written rather than AI-written text.

    Their wordsPhilosophy journals should also want human-generated rather than AI-generated text for the same evidential reasons.

  2. Our reading

    Human experts think differently and better than LLMs.

    Their wordsHuman experts think differently and better than LLMs.

  3. Our reading

    There is a huge cognitive difference between approving a text one reads and actually generating it.

    Their wordsThere's a huge cognitive difference between nodding along while reading something and actually productively generating a text.

  4. Our reading

    That an expert human generated a text is evidence that its view is worth thinking about, more than if an LLM generated it.

    Their wordsThe fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about -- more so than if the text were generated by an LLM.

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