Authenticity's Triumph

Note: Other than for illustrative purposes, no LLMs were used in the creation of this content. All opinions, typos, em dashes, and uses of negative framing in this artisanal, hand-crafted content are my own.

There is a battle underway between those of us who produce value by beautifying, improving, and mending our frayed world and those who seek to collect and hoard the fruits of our labor by fueling endless conflict as a means toward endless revenue. More recently, this battle has evolved through the proliferation of large language models (LLMs), which offer a simulacrum of human communication and creativity in the name of economic growth and efficiency.