In his Grammar Moses column on April 8th, Jim Baumann challenged his readers to a test:  Determine which one of two blurbs on gerunds was written by the artificial application ChatGPT and which was written by him. (The AI version took forty-one seconds to create; Baumann's took five minutes).

If readers were expecting the choice would be easy . . . well, they'd have to think again. 

In his follow-up column the next week, Bauman gave examples where readers (even some of his most ardent fo...