It's a powerful observation, which prompts two further thoughts. First, as much of the writing generated by AI depends on scraping material that has already been published (within a delimited timeframe) there is a 'reproductive' rather than creative quality to it. Second, human creativity is usually relational. It draws on connection and interaction between people and between ideas, spanning disciplines, places, times. There is a relational dimension both to the making and the consumption. Are we losing that?

David Byrne questioned whether we were 'eliminating the human' in a piece he wrote in 2017:

'I have a theory that much recent tech development and innovation over the last decade or so has an unspoken overarching agenda. It has been about creating the possibility of a world with less human interaction. This tendency is, I suspect, not a bug—it’s a feature.'