The human brain is not capable of formal logic at this stage.

Kay said she was also concerned about the presence of adverts on some newer, discounted Kindle devices, and how these might alter the reading experience.

Some people still insist you have options and that the market change because of organic choice. You don’t and it doesn’t. Companies are subtle and gently guide you to where they want when it works. When it doesn’t, they push you while thanking you for your support.

To offer some perspective. The Linux kernel will now stop supporting a CPU from 1989.

The distinctions between automation-assisted text production and writing may not matter to you. If so, fair enough, but I also wonder what you’re doing here. Go wallow in the infinite universe of slop. If you don’t want an infinite universe of slop, maybe these distinctions matter more than you think.

Language is math and semantics at the most basic level. And a lot of patterns we manipulate in different ways. Experienced writers probably approach their work more systematically than beginners, which is math, logic, structure. Writing is not magical, even if the process is subconscious.

I believe that AI writing will always be limited and eventually bland without human feeding it creativity. That said, the discussion I find more important is not who deserves an ephemeral title, but the nature of the final product itself. We already have varying degrees of non-food, now we have a new kind of non-text.

And non-texts have been present since writers were paid by the word and inflated their works so they wouldn’t starve. They are there to satisfy SEO and our attention spam. We play the language game and adapt to new rules all the time, begrudgingly if we get aesthetically displeased.

People say AI writing is terrible, but people love horrible things all the time. It’ll probably not be good for them and make it hard to appreciate something different and totally human created with time, but that has also been happening before more automated tools. It’s not a tech problem.