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This suggests, more than ever, that human curation and review is absolutely crucial. The sad thing about this is that it just lends more power to monopolistic publishers and renowned critics and away from people who, without access to such esteem and networks, have to work tirelessly to produce self-published works. All in the hopes of earning a pittance and finding a way to thrive artistically within capitalism. It's strange that AI, contrary to what true believers say, may not end up democratizing information, but instead it will make us more reliant on centralised and assured sources. Perhaps the journalism industry, and other ostensibly old fashioned institutional vestiges, are about to see a renaissance.

EDIT: Tangent: I run a book recommendation platform and am envisaging having to implement a pre-2021 lock-in/time-freeze as my data is about to get massively polluted by the AI Boom.