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David MacLeod's avatar

As Paul Valery said long ago, "If I am to write, I should infinitely prefer writing something feeble that was produced in full consciousness and utter lucidity, rather than being carried out of myself to give birth in a trance to one of the greatest masterpieces in literature."

As quoted by Jean Gebser in The Ever-Present Origin, page. 326.

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Gilbert Valentine's avatar

AI is a very dangerous precedent for deference to "expert" decisions.

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Cynthia's avatar

Ten or so years ago I was on a certain social media outlet based in California.

There were definitely bots aplenty on the site ..infiltrating a genuine writers and poets site with those who were trying to make sense of the world.

I questioned a certain “chaplain” at the time who wrote a piece that essentially incited readers to consider their lives as invaluable. Weird.

I got a diatribe of abuse from said “ chaplain” that bordered on the ridiculous.

There was no doubt in my mind that I was dealing with a non human however it was not clear to others.

I turned off social media from that point on.

Brought up (thankfully) to be too much my own person to put up with that sort of rubbish.

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