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Guest Essay

By Lily Koppel

Ms. Koppel is the author of “The Red Leather Diary.”

I love diaries — physical, bound paper books filled with handwriting — more and more as the digital has taken over so much of our lives. I have an existential terror of losing my human coherence, my voice, to the chatbot. Human thought, expression and experience are being commodified, thrown into a blender that spits out clichés and other slop.

A.I. models regularly steal artists’ and writers’ work (and just about everything else) to train their newest........

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