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I don’t think I’ve ever heard the “your husband must have helped you” criticism used (who is it even aimed for? It’s not like people write Lemmy comments in pairs), but I see plenty of accusations of AI articles and comments.
Maybe not in modern times, but I took a literature class recently and we learned some interesting stuff about the lives of the author's we read. Some of the female authors did have husbands or men in their life that were like "I know it sounds crazy that a FEMALE could do this, but yes she actually did write this book and wrote better than a man! While still taking care of the kids like a good mother should of course!" and people just chilled with that. So I could see a ultra-trad boomer saying it.
Oh dang that’s sad if true. I forgot that books used to be treated in a high enough regard that people believed women couldn’t write them, usually I only see them as the punchline to an insult nowadays (“You’re wrong and an idiot, read a book”).
I do feel like the accusations are kind of on a different level though. Books are long and you usually know the author (they have a face, a name, a husband) so the husband insult was to discredit the author rather than the material itself. Meanwhile most written content today is news articles and Lemmy comments put out by generic news websites or faceless avatars — the content is all you have to judge them by. And considering how much of the content made by soulless websites actually is AI slop, it’s hard to see it as an attempt to discredit women. I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens, but it’s probably a very small percentage of total AI accusations.