I sit at a small table listening to a seminar. The speaker is an expert in their field. They've travelled a long way to be here. The audience is quietly attentive, leaning forward to catch every drop of wisdom. There are nibbles and handouts on the table. The speaker continues fluidly. I start to feel queasy. "I feel like vomiting - and all of a sudden, there it is: the Nausea." (Satre, Nausea , 1938, p. 176 in Penguin Classics edition, Baldick translation) Why do I feel this spinning, motion sickness, almost vertigo? I know why. The realisation lands with a suffocating heaviness. What I'm hearing through the mouth of the speaker is very largely AI-generated. I know it (at least 95% sure) because I've spent quite a bit of time using AI tools recently. Partly it's the presentation slides. It's the beige background and serif font (favoured by Claude and Gamma). It's the the three-column format and the little icons at the beginning of a content bar and ...
Living and preaching at the foot of the Cross