Advait Bhat @advaitmb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Writers did adapt the suggestions they kept — rewording them, adding personal anecdotes, making them sound like their own. But the underlying framing and concepts from the AI survived into the final text, even in passages writers composed themselves. 100
Advait Bhat @advaitmb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026This is algorithmic agenda-setting at the moment of ideation. As Bernard Cohen wrote of the press in 1963: it may not tell people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about. AI writing assistants may now do the same for writers. 111
Advait Bhat @advaitmb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026This paper would not have been possible without the collaboration and guidance of @mjakesch.bsky.social, @mariannealq.bsky.social and @informor.bsky.social. The paper is now available in open access! #chi2026 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...dl.acm.orgReactive Writers: How Co-Writing with AI Changes How We Engage with Ideas | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 100