🔗 Are We Cooked? - by John Warner:

Since ChatGPT first appeared, rather than relentlessly focusing on the limits of generative AI, I’ve instead been trying to make an affirmative case for the importance of writing in this age of automated syntax generation, but I didn’t know what case to make against GPT-5’s parlor trick other than “Who cares?”

I don’t know how to fight against something that comes without any coherent value proposition other than, “Look at how fuckin’ cool this shit is.” If I say it’s not cool, then I’m out of touch. If I say that how cool something isn’t a great metric for utility toward human thriving, I’m against “progress.” I began to wonder what I’m even doing here.

I have been finding myself in this same boat more and more frequently of late. It makes me wonder whether the people relentlessly hyping this stuff—many of whom are clearly not stupid—have a fundamentally different idea than I do of what it means to be human.