It's rude to show AI output to people

The author argues that sharing unedited AI output with other people is rude, because it passes machine text off as human thought and wastes the recipient's time. Drawing on Peter Watts's novel Blindsight, which describes alien scramblers treating human chatter as a viral attack, the piece says that AI text has lost the "proof-of-thought" that writing once carried, since AI now makes text, code and media very cheap. The proposed etiquette is that AI output should be relayed only if the sender has adopted it as their own or the recipient has explicitly consented, and that using AI yourself is fine.