Part 1 of 5
Why We Write
When a Dev.to moderator flagged my post for AI assistance, it raised a question we've stopped asking: why do we write at all, and what should the rules aroun...
A series from bekahhw.com
A 5-part series on what happened when a Dev.to moderator flagged a post for AI assistance, and why the rules platforms use to police AI-assisted writing protect the wrong thing. The case for judging writing by ownership, not origin.
Part 1 of 5
When a Dev.to moderator flagged my post for AI assistance, it raised a question we've stopped asking: why do we write at all, and what should the rules aroun...
Part 2 of 5
Ghostwriting has been undisclosed for a century, and nobody calls it fraud. So why does one tool get a mandatory badge? A look at the double standard baked i...
Part 3 of 5
An AI disclosure badge isn't neutral metadata, it's a verdict. Why stigma-backed mandates punish the writers doing things honestly while doing nothing to sto...
Part 4 of 5
Plagiarism policies target real harm and are checkable in the artifact. AI disclosure mandates do neither. A look at what actually betrays readers, and why p...
Part 5 of 5
The real question was never which tool touched the text, but whether a mind stands behind it. The closing essay in the series argues for a standard built on ...