When Leo Tolstoy wrote, “art is a human activity … that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through,” generative artificial intelligence was still more than a hundred years off. He might not have bothered to write all 1225 pages of War and Peace had ChatGPT been just a few clicks away.
Now, it’s nearly impossible to scroll the internet without seeing mention of AI and its potential impact on humanity. High schools are clamping down on students using AI to write essays and, to much outcry, the