“…it's always going to produce grammatically correct content that is fluent, that is mechanically correct. And so we've broken the connection between this looks good and this is good.”
Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer · AI Builders · November 2026
Context
She was arguing that polish, grammar and fluency used to signal that someone had put real effort into content. AI now produces those qualities by default, whether or not the content is accurate.
Transcript
AI is a tool. And tools should be used in the context that they are good at doing. I mean, this is the old, if everything, you know, if you have a hammer, everything looks like a name. I was
going to say the same thing. I mean, it's just
so dumb, but of course it's true. Fundamentally, in order to get the AI to produce useful content, you have to feed it useful content. And so if the input is garbage, the output, I mean, this is just all cliches, right? But people decided that what they could do was take a bunch of unmanaged, unstructured, unvetted, unupdated, unaccurate information and dump it into an AI and it would magically come out pristine on the other end. Now, here's the key thing: it comes out looking pristine.
Yes.
It's very lovely, looks great. And the problem is, this is the fundamental issue that we have with AI. I think cognitively, when you see something that looks pretty, you assume it's accurate. The grammar is good.
The writing is structured well. It's
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