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I don’t think it’s lunacy to care about the context around something and not just the final product.

> There will come a time, very soon, where you wont be able to tell the difference, and what then?

People have been saying this for a while, and--particularly with long-form fiction--we're not getting any closer.

Presumably artists will be sent to the glue factory and then we'll get to live eternally on regurgitated facsimilies of the corpus of creative work that was produced pre-AI.

> There will come a time, very soon, where you wont be able to tell the difference, and what then?

We'll stop buying new books, sticking to things written before 2022.

Think about what you’re saying for a moment. Play that scenario out in your head.

... Is that so difficult to imagine?

You're thinking of _entertainment_, not art.