Writing With Unnatural Constraints

Writing With Unnatural Constraints:

So too, goes my thinking, regarding the “watermarking” of AI-generated text through word choices alone. Fitting words into the watermarking pattern surely results in prose far less stilted than omitting the letter e, and surely also less stilted than rs1n’s hard-wrapped-at-75-characters-per-line Super Metroid FAQ, but it’s necessarily stilted to some degree. It’s sophistry to argue that one can write within a constraint without the constraint affecting the quality of the writing.

[Constraints always have impact. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. It’s in the hands of the craftsperson.]

Source: Daring Fireball

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