2026-09-06 / Signal #4
Readers revolt at the first LLM sentence
“AI made writing free. Readers responded by making attention expensive.”
Why It Matters
The audience, not the lab, is writing the new etiquette: machine prose may scale production while destroying the scarce thing—reader trust.
Evidence
Source evidence is in the linked daily scan.
Caveat
The survey is developer-heavy and detection is subjective; frame as a cultural signal, not a universal statistic.
Sources
Daily scan: 2026-09-06