As a follow-up, this is true not only at the level of individual experience but at the societal level. "AI" is supposed to make our lives better. Proponents wa

As a follow-up, this is true not only at the level of individual experience but at the societal level. "AI" is supposed to make our lives better. Proponents want it to replace soul-crushing, boring clerical work, to free us up for things more meaningful to us, which for many people is to create and consume art. Why do tech people keep having the impulse to replace the best parts of being human? Are you really telling me that the vast corpus of human-generated creative writing isn't enough for you, and you have an itch to read something that can only be written by an AI? That seems crazy to me. ...or are you just a publisher, and wish you could make more money without needing to pay those pesky human authors? And in that case, I won't try to argue with you -- just give you a heartfelt middle finger.