The 2023 screenwriters' contract states AI output isn't ‘literary material’ and writers can't be forced to use it — ordinary workers drawing a line around their own voice through bargaining.
Ted Chiang's Feb 2023 essay frames generative AI as a lossy, blurry compression of the web — one of the clearest popular cases for why originals and precision still matter.
The 2021 paper arguing large models stitch together training text rather than understand it — an academic anchor for why human voice and texture can't be averaged away.