JenHoward"It is easy now to imagine a setup wherein machines could prompt other machines to put out text ad infinitum, flooding the internet with synthetic text devoid of human agency or intent: gray goo, but for the written word." In the Atlantic, @mkirschenbaum wonders whether we might be headed for a "textpocalypse."
(I'd been avoiding a lot of the ChatGPT commentary, not feeling quite ready for it, but decided I couldn't put it off any longer. Matt's article is very good.)