Roger, I apologize for offending you. I have been trying to educate myself recently about AI generated content. Recently I was trying to create a pitch deck for a drug rehab clinic in Baltimore. This is a subject about which I know next to nothing, so I used ChatGpt to create the narrative to put in the pitch deck. It read perfectly and on point. That is what led me to question your piece. It is, as you say extremely well written, no digressions, no asides, nothing idiosyncratic in the presentation, in other words none of the things that one might expect in a non-AI style of writing.

I hope that this clarifies why I asked the question. I see a lot of stuff on Medium that appear to my eye to be AI, particularly all of the listicles about relationships for example, so I have become a bit wary when I see something that appears to be grammatically flawless.

The other day I had a fight with an editor of one publication about just this issue.

I wrote: 'For those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s we have a nostalgia for the certainties of the Cold War'.

He wanted the grammar corrected which would make the second clause, 'there is a nostalgia for the certainties of the Cold War'. I wanted to emphasise the 'us' and the 'we' since this applies to older people such as myself. English is an extremely flexible language, and the meaning is clear in the sentence as it is presented. As a writer I am at liberty to choose the style in which I write as are you or as is any other author. My reaction was, like yours, to be offended at having my style called into question.

In any case let me make it up to you by reading some of your other articles and clapping and commenting on them.

All the best, Glenn