The Gilded Grove: A Summons of the Minor
Before you read this, please go read this so you understand just how mind blowing and world changing what you are about to read actually is.
Before you read this, please go read this so you understand just how mind blowing and world changing what you are about to read actually is.
There’s a conversation happening in creative communities right now that I find exhausting. It goes like this: AI is going to replace writers. AI is cheating. AI output is soulless. Real artists don’t use AI. If you use AI you’re not really creating.
I’ve been acting like I have a salary. I don’t. I have books. I have ideas. I have a body of work that exists to reach people who need it. And every platform I abandon in the name of ethics is a limb I’ve cut off to prove I’m fighting fair.
We’ve allowed it to become a transaction—a predatory exchange where society systematically pressures us to trade our most vibrant, healthy, and energetic years for a paycheck, often deferring real living to a hypothetical, financially-secure future that may never come.
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