Former hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller caused a stir Monday with a Wall Street Journal column criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. But the debate over his bond-market argument was quickly overshadowed by another question: Did Druckenmiller use artificial intelligence to write it?

Specifically, some X users pointed out the fact that the column contained what's become commonly known as AI-specific patterns of written speech. Dragonfly Capital's Haseeb Qureshi shared an analysis showing the op-ed received a 100% score from Pangram, an AI-detection tool. AI detectors are imperfect, but in this case, Druckenmiller subsequently confirmed that he uses AI in his writing.

"There's no way the editors at the WSJ don't have an ear for AI-written prose," Qureshi said in a post on X. "They know what AI sounds like; they're not stupid. They published this anyway. Is this the new normal? Does it mean AI writing is finally good enough to publish in the WSJ, and we need to stop being so precious about AI-voice?"

The billionaire Druckenmiller did not deny using AI. While saying the "whole thing" was not written with AI, he told NOTUS that he now uses the technology in everything he writes.

"There’s a reason I moved from an English major to being an economics major. I’m not embarrassed by it," Druckenmiller told NOTUS' Jeff Stein. "I write everything using AI now for the same reason I use a calculator when I do math problems.”

Druckenmiller's core argument in the op-ed is that Washington should stop trying to suppress long-term Treasury yields and instead listen to what the bond market is signaling about the U.S.'s deteriorating fiscal position. This came in response to Bessent's decision to double long-dated Treasury buybacks from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation after the 30-year yield hit a two-decade high.

It also sparked further conversation on the merits of AI-based writing.

"[D]oes it mean that if you're famous and important, it's OK to just push out AI-written content so long as your byline is on it and you stand by the consequences?"Qureshi posited.

Paul Gigot, a Wall Street Journal opinion editor, defends Druckenmiller. Gigot's defense appeared to draw a distinction between how the prose was produced and whose views it represented.

"AI is a fact of modern life," Gigot said in a statement to Semafor. "...nobody can doubt that his op-ed is his genuine opinion."