There is a degradation of the soul that happens when it consumes what something with no soul produces.
I have this unpublished book (waiting for better times) where the protagonist is a book binder. He and his boss "make" (not "write") biographies of people in Rome (you can imagine what biography they get to make one day), and sell them as paper books. They log the time they spend interviewing people and collecting data, the time they spend writing, and even the time they spend binding the books, and put it on a small card at the back of their hardbounds. As corroboration, they film everything with an authenticating camera. What they are selling is not text, but human time and effort. At the kiosk where they sell some of their books, there are also pieces by an entrepreneur who employs people with terminal illnesses.
Lots of people will go for a machine-generated quick-fix. But they'll do it because they can't afford better. Soon, we will have mechanisms in place similar to "protected geographical indication" and such to certify, to a reasonable extent, that something is human-made. Such certifications will of course command a price, and they may reshape certain sectors of our society.
I could use that information. What are their titles/offices? Mind you, in a fiction context, any present-day day famous _concrete_ _real_ residents are not that useful.
There is a degradation of the soul that happens when it consumes what something with no soul produces.
I have this unpublished book (waiting for better times) where the protagonist is a book binder. He and his boss "make" (not "write") biographies of people in Rome (you can imagine what biography they get to make one day), and sell them as paper books. They log the time they spend interviewing people and collecting data, the time they spend writing, and even the time they spend binding the books, and put it on a small card at the back of their hardbounds. As corroboration, they film everything with an authenticating camera. What they are selling is not text, but human time and effort. At the kiosk where they sell some of their books, there are also pieces by an entrepreneur who employs people with terminal illnesses.
Lots of people will go for a machine-generated quick-fix. But they'll do it because they can't afford better. Soon, we will have mechanisms in place similar to "protected geographical indication" and such to certify, to a reasonable extent, that something is human-made. Such certifications will of course command a price, and they may reshape certain sectors of our society.