Folded between the pages.

While I was working on my latest redesign, I added a statement explaining how “artificial intelligence” is used on my website. And in a fit of pique, I slapped this line onto the end: I am very upset I had to write any of this, but here we both are. Look, I don’t know if the exasperation coursing through that line is wise, as a working designer who would like to continue to, well, work. But I’ll own the sentiment. If nothing else, it lines up with how I feel about large language models (LLMs), and specifically how their explosive growth has made everyone suspicious of everything they see, read, and write. And understandably! Putting aside for the briefest of moments how these technologies have led to new forms of misinformation and disinformation, it’s fiendishly difficult to know just how human-made something is these days. A few short years ago we’d never ask the questions many of us are now asking. 1 And many of those questions are simply some variant on, “did you actually make…