There are two basic attitudes one can take to generative AI (ChatGPT and all the rest), which are summed up by the last lines of two stories I read as a kid: "The Macauley Circuit" by Robert Silverberg (1956), and "Skirmish" by Clifford D. Simak (1950). In fact I've been quoting these last lines from time to time for decades; they form a perfect pair. SPOILERS ahead.
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