Guilt by automation

Sometime in the last year, the burden of proof flipped. It used to be that you made a thing and people decided whether it was any good. Now you make a thing and, before anyone will engage with whether it's good, you have to prove you made it at all. That a machine didn’t do it for you. That you sweated. That it counts. I felt the flip land last week. I'd written a reflective piece called The Reload Cost, about how AI has quietly removed the cost of switching between tasks, and what that does to...