Great take. In my view, a major issue right now is that the people pushing these tools on the populace have never read Barthes and in many cases probably don't

Great take. In my view, a major issue right now is that the people pushing these tools on the populace have never read Barthes and in many cases probably don't even know the name. If they had an inkling of literary and social history, they might be a bit more cautious and conscientious of how they frame these tools to people. We are currently subject to the whims of corporations with absurd amounts of influence and power, run by people who barely understand the sciences, who likely know nothing about literary history beyond what the chatbot can summarize for them, have zero sociological knowledge or communications understanding, and who don't even write well-engineered code 90% of the time but are instead ok with shipping buggy crap to the masses as long as it means they get to be the first ones to do so, all this coupled with an amount of hubris unmatched by even the greatest protagonists of greek literature. Society has given some of the stupidest people the greatest amount of resources and power, and now we are paying for it.