AI and Persuasive Writing

Will the rules for persuasive writing change over the next 5 - 10 years, given the rise of artificial/super intelligence?

From a slightly different angle on the 'LinkedIn is flooded with ChatGPT posts', I wonder how much this is impacting how we view persuasive writing - a key skill we teach students at GCSE.

I can already spot a ChatGPT post fairly reliably - perhaps because I work with language all the time. But as a consequence, I find myself second guessing whether to use rhetorical questions (such as the one above), tricolons, or strings of short declarative sentences.

Do these methods (that have worked since the time of the Greeks and Romans) have impact and efficacy in a world where social media is absolutely flooded with these devices?

There is a certain irony as I type this post, because I can't help but reach for these methods as a model of good writing.

On the other hand, I do find myself almost smiling when I make a grammatical error, or more keen to express myself with informality, if only to come across as genuine, human and authentic when I write.

Do we see our concept of persuasive writing evolving and changing in response to a world where a machine can write as convincingly as we can? I'm curious, more than alarmed here!

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