Technical transition

Perhaps machines are being touted as generators of "content" because anything is more interesting than the bullshit humans are uploading at this point in history. Social media, apps, news, entertainment: online "content" is either a bucket of warm soup or hysterical talkback radio. So let's do a deal: AI can write novels as long as AI promises to read them, because I won't. ChatGPT's parroting is right up there with Muzak and screensavers: don't waste my motherfucking time.

Logically the only way things can go is backwards, now – to old-fashioned books and screens and one-on-one experience and real authors taking real time over real things. I would say that, of course. And also of course there'll be no real going back: the human touch will still be augmented. But the web really does seem like it's at a terminal point of crappiness. We just aren't saying it out loud yet.