The bottom line is that there are some tasks, such as the first draft of a dreaded and long-procrastinated email or some piece of boilerplate documentation, where asking a computer for the most common form may be productive. And others, like creative writing, where it’s much less likely to be so.

A dual view of the truism “once it’s implemented, it’s no longer consider AI” is that every major AI invention reveals in its negative space a nuance of what it is to be human; in this case, the human activity of writing.