The smell of AI

I keep thinking about this piece by Hugh Howey I linked to. I feel revulsion toward AI-created content. When any piece of art, no matter the format, has the slightest smell of AI, I'm out. It doesn't even matter if any AI was actually used; the mere suggestion of AI is enough. I'm aware this is unfair towards people that happen to talk/write/sound like AI, especially when it's their content AI was trained on. That is, unfortunately, collateral damage. With time, this will become much harder. The better these models get, the better they will be at pretending not to be AI. (Or not, if they all start watermarking their output.) But it doesn't matter. I do not want to consciously consume any AI-created art or content. This just means that we need to find ways to prove the humanity behind what we consume. I don't know what this could look like, and I'll let more intelligent people figure this out. For the time being, I'll be skeptical whenever I consume something. I realize that I do not…