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This part - "AI programs’ efficiency in generating smooth, grammatical text is irresistible, whether you need a savvy sentence in a job application or a line of banter on a dating app" - made me wonder: who finds it irresistible to surrender their individuality when bantering on a dating app to a sequence modelling algorithm?

The article talks about the writing "elites," who normally are expected to take pride in writing. But what about those who just find it fun and exhilarating? Pride after all is a sin, a predictor famously of decline. And perhaps that's what explains the willingness of those (maybe even including Fairbanks, this article's author) who see their relationship to their writing and their status in that world as one of pride to acquiesce in this moment of literary seppuku.

If you're writing, creating, communicating, to compete and be fêted, then you're predisposed to be seduced by a tool that can so quickly put badges on raccoons. If you're doing it to discover your sense of self, your use of that tool is entirely different and you'll naturally keep its output at arm's length from what you actually own as "your writing."