In Praise of Writing (and the Case Against AI)

If George Orwell, one of the best essayists, were alive today, he’d be firmly against AI. Not because of 1984 or ‘Big Brother’, but because in ‘Why I Write’, he listed four motives for writing;

- Historical impulse - Political purpose - Aesthetic enthusiasm - Egoism

Neither of these motives survives if you let AI do the writing for you.