Why AI Output Gets Worse the More You Edit It (and How to Fix It)
A common observation: AI-generated content looks decent on the first pass, but ask the model to revise it and the result often turns into a mess. Why? Two AI assistants were asked to explain. Their answers are reproduced below. DeepSeek’s explanation [1] The phenomenon is widespread enough that the industry even has a phrase for it: “the more you edit AI copy, the worse it gets.” The cause is not a single factor but a stack of several mechanisms: ...