Chris Rosebrough is on a campaign against JD Hall, as seems to have been the case since 2022, and Joel Webbon. He has alleged that Webbon and Hall have plagiarized AI in order to write The Hyphenated Heresy.
His allegations have relied on Grammarly’s free AI tracker which aims to sell users a tool to “humanize” their writing. Chris Rosebrough’s smoking gun is reveal, and leaves much to be desired.
The AI believes that “Chapter 1” was generated by AI as well as the chapter title. It also takes issue with the rhetorical flourish after the first sentence and the juxtaposition in the text. It even flags a Bible citation as AI written, with “But the New Testament never speaks in those terms” as the either highlighted or most “obvious” AI example.
Simply put, this is weak evidence. JD Hall is a prolific writer. Joel Webbon speaks in phrases like “it’s not whether but which” and has since before AI. Perhaps that translates into his writing (I’ve never read Webbon before). But Hall’s writing is familiar throughout the book.
Having read, but not finished, The Hyphenated Heresy, I have found human errors throughout the pages, a good indicator that it was not AI written.
When AI can be used to research, edit, and proofread a manuscript, those who use these tools will have their writing resemble them. What does humanizing one’s writing mean, when robots can compose competent prose with rhetorical flourish. Aside from forgoing em dashes, writing that uses high school-level rhetorical devices might appear as robotic as the quality of human writing degrades.
Chris Rosebrough’s smoking gun is a limp pea shooter. He doesn’t understand AI, nor can he comprehend that some people are simply better writers than he.
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Of course it’s “weak evidence”, you’re a Hall/Webbon fanboy.