You've been able to generate full books using ChatGPT for even longer. Somehow, authors continue selling books.

It's almost as if people recognize and will pay for quality creative output from human beings.

We software developers are so used to software being difficult, time-consuming and expensive, but that world is gone. We're now much closer to other creative arts like writing, music or photography (and sadly, we're about to be paid like artists too). In a creative field, when someone has a good idea or style, it gets copied. But that's just art.

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I don't know if I agree with either assertion… I've seen plenty of human-generated knowledge work that was factually correct, well-formatted, and extremely low quality on a conceptual level.

And AI signatures are now easy for people to recognize. In fact, these turns of phrase aren't just recognizable—they're unmistakable. <-- See what I did there?

Having worked with corporate clients for 10 years, I don't view the pre-LLM era as a golden age of high-quality knowledge work. There was a lot of junk that I would also classify as a "working simulacrum of knowledge work."

If Buddhism can be said to have a goal, it is to reduce suffering (including your own), so troubling your own mind is indeed something it can help with. The point of existence would be something interesting to meditate on. If you discover it, let us all know!

East, West, Religion, Practice… From a Zen perspective, you're just troubling your mind with binaries and conflict.

I'd encourage you to check it out for yourself. It's certainly possible to be a dogmatic Buddhist, but one of the foundational beliefs of Buddhism is that the type of dogmatic attachment you're describing is avoidable. It's not easy, but that's why you meditate.