Article wasn't written by an AI. So what if it had been

If it had been, then I wouldn't have bothered reading it.

> Behind the admonishments to never outsource one’s writing is a naive implication that inside everyone rests a hidden Hemingway, and all they need is time and the discipline to sit with a blank page.

I don't think that's what's behind it at all. The point isn't hat everyone has a secret Hemmingway in them, it's that the value of the writing is the author's actual expression.

> I have been a professional speechwriter for 15 years—long enough that the exact number of op-eds I’ve ghostwritten for the Journal now escapes me (I’ve also written for By Invitation).

Well, that makes sense. I don't really value ghostwritten things either, for the same reason.