But surely the narrative dynamic demands they be on the front line? The New Mutants were always sneaking out, disobeying orders, or filling in for absent seniors. And Cyclops’s line was that they lived on the front line, and he was right. The school was always ground zero.

Sounds like there are a lot of ways for non-artists to improve their art skills, but that takes a lot of time. Printing presses made scribes redundant, calculators vastly diminished our reliance on skilled tabular calculations, GPS rendered navigators superfluous. Why is visual art a holy cow?

A lot of other professions face the same threat, as they have done throughout history - if human artists are so great (and they are) they will endure.
I did not know the reply word count was so tight…

But it will do great and terrible things, like most tech, and I don’t think we can draw a circle around ‘art’ and call it sacred. It will help non-artists visualise their ideas, ones who with the best will in the world cannot afford to pay another person.

Yeah, I get that it is, but I can’t buy into the AI is by definition bad thesis. It’s going to challenge a lot of people’s employment prospects (including mine - professional coder, aspiring writer), and I don’t trust its output on either, yet.

Zero tolerance of any use ever? What about antibiotics discovered by AI? Presumably off the backs of research conducted by generations of scientists?

One Hundred Years of Solitude is emotionally intense and laden with beauty, but as pretty much every male character shares one of two names it does get rough working out who is who. But then you take it on the chin that that’s kind of the point and go with the wonderful flow.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, obviously, for leavening the jokes with so much truth, but also David Sedaris’s Santaland Diaries - funniest thing I’ve ever heard read out loud.
Do you think Macy’s has the real Satan?

Is balance sheet misleading? Sure, the negative vastly outweighs the positive, but does this by definition eliminate the possibility of any positive effects? WWI was horrific, but we can still acknowledge technological and social benefits. Without saying it was a good thing or advocating a rerun?