I despise AI on Medium -- and I'm sick of constant six and eight minute articles from people who would once regularly complain of writer's block for mere three minute articles -- I feel it is cheating, akin to drugs in sport -- you can pick the soullessness -- and karma to them because they are not becoming better writers, worse in fact - if they so desire to do a book one day; and they aren't gaining knowledge. Knowledge can also be useful for surveying and negotiating the world beyond the looking glass