• Tiresia@slrpnk.net
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    I’m surprised you didn’t go for

    Julia was twenty-six years old… and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor…

    She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad. But she was not interested in the final product. She “didn’t much care for reading,” she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.

    , also from Nineteen Eighty-Four

    It’s… optimistic about how much AI users know about the internal workings of AI, expecting them to be engineers rather than commodity consumers, but the disdain for what is produced is on point. As is its role in maintaining a post-truth society.

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      That’s another good one. There are so many parts of that book that are directly relevant today. It boggles my mind that people in general are not furious about what is happening.