I think your point on “cutting down on words”, so to speak, is relative to personal writing style. I find that AI tends to write far more words than I personally do, which is sometimes useful, but in the opposite direction that it works for you.

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I think “cutting down on words” depends on personal writing style. AI tends to write more than I would, so I usually have the opposite problem.