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Pretty soon you may not even be able to have that prejudice, because who will be able to definitively say your favorite author isn't using generative AI?

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This really isn't any different than the "hand crafted" trend. People like hand crafted even in cases where it's objectively worse than machine made. Also, it's often hard to know when something is really "hand crafted", or indeed where the line is before you can call it that. E.g. how many parts needs to be made by hand to say it's "hand crafted"?

Also for writing, even today you don't really know if an author has used a ghost writer to help them.

> even today you don't really know if an author has used a ghost writer to help them.

True, but the odds are overwhelming that the ghost writer was human.

It's almost like there's a(t least a) startup idea in making "human made" certificates for those things.

At which point, I'll probably stop reading new things and my favorite authors will be historical ones.

Why not join a group of like minded people and read each other's stories? No need to just give up and fold like that.

I don't think it's so easy to find a group of good writers (let alone convincing them to let me join!)

But, yes, that would be an option. Honestly, though, if this sort of future actually comes to pass, I think I'll have much larger problems to find ways to handle first.

You say that but I highly doubt you're going to completely stop reading new things at all. People probably said similar things when other inventions were made but humans adapt, the hedonic treadmill is real.

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