There’s not much money in writing already, so hype around new technology as a ready replacement for existing labor is exacerbating reminders of how little stability is on offer in creative fields.

But in the process of expressing outrage at people eager to leverage the hype to personal benefit — people rushing to “get theirs” through technology trained on other people’s output — there is a thread of commentary that undermines the very richness of literary tradition we’re ostensibly fighting for in the first place.