Revisiting this (though it wasn't that long ago, lol) after chatting with my partner about this - who's a writer and budding author - and learned about more writers are pushing against specifically like https://cdn.xeiaso.net/file/christine-static/blog/2023/automuse/main.pdf (Automuse). It seems terribly easy for people to devalue "art" in the many forms it takes on when it's for "fun" and not a primary line of work for others.

This line of thinking comes from a quilt of many thoughts: the (re-)surging of workers banding together against abusive systems of labor, megacorporations building tooling that can reduce the amount of labor that THEY'LL need to staff for work (not necessarily making our lives easier — that's what technology is advertised to do, and it can, but only if it serves the underlying mercantile system we live under) and the growing trend of marketing pushing these kind of systems as "market-ready", "production-ready" and "something people should be using now". With no highlighting about how OpenAI nee Microsoft, Google, etc all had to abscond ethics to "trailblaze these tools".

I say all of this to say: no, fuck your "art". Fuck the twisting of text in language models for your neural models (or what have you) for the sake of it. I'll be repeating this to everyone I know as well.