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I think we should use the term "machine generated" more and more when referring to the outputs of generative AI. Given how tech companies try to present "AI" as some kind of magic tool, and how they try to humanize the bots, I believe it's important to ground any discussion by pointing out that it's not much different from the output of a perl script. A perl script that needs a nuclear reactor to run and whose output is unreliable, but still just a dumb script.