When you say it doesn’t feel good to use AI, you’re not saying that when you’re not using AI the process is always pleasant. What you’re feeling is something like an authentic engagement with reality. You’re in life. That can absolutely be a very unpleasant experience, but it’s an alive experience.

My argument was always not that an LLM couldn’t create something of equal merit, but that the fact that a novel was written by Jane Austen is a big part of what gives it its value. It’s not just about the end result; it’s about where the end result comes from.

We recognize that while the primary reason that slavery is a moral abomination is what it does to the people who are enslaved, there is something deeply corrupting about being someone who treats someone else as property. I’m not saying it’s the same thing as slavery, but there’s a depravity in treating a person as nothing but a means to your end.... See more