4/4 Therein I think lies a message: most of us do what we do because it means something to us, and we will resist using AI for that task. In my case it's writing; for someone else it might be visual art. It's for each of us to ask why we do what we do and what place an AI has in that endeavor.

3/4 ...Others will have different reasons. And Gen AI might serve them. I'm holding out, as many are. I have, however, used DALL-E/diffusion models on occasion to generate images. Visual elements are not my forte. I can imagine a visual artist being aghast at the use of image generation models.

2/4 ... I became a writer to pay attention to the world of ideas and experience the indescribable feeling of putting your thoughts into words as precisely and poetically as possible. Even if what I'm writing about is machine learning and AI. But the world is changing ...