There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text

Simon Willison shares and comments on Sophie Alpert's internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers, emphasizing that there are no lossless transformations of natural-language text and that engineers must stand behind every idea and sentence in their documentation.

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There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text — every rewrite and rephrase changes the meaning of your writing, and if this is done by an entity that doesn’t have the most detailed mental representation of what you personally were trying to communicate, information will be lost.
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Announced: 11 Aug 2026 23:48 UTC
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