Conversation

'The literature machines we’ve built today … are not merely surrounded by hidden ghosts of the individual and society but are built from them and speak in their tongues. Yes, these systems are used to produce swathes of bland, semi-language—meaningless pap that is not only not good but is actively corrosive to the business of thinking—but they’re also capable, as any combinatorial mechanism can be, human or otherwise, of insight and revelation.'

https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/do-chatbots-dream-of-ai-poetry-calvino-madness-and-machine-literature/