Every other time we read text, we are engaging with the product of another mind. We are so used to the idea of text as a representation of another person’s thoughts that we have come to mistake their writing for their thoughts. But they aren’t. Text and media are tools that authors and artists create to let people change their own state of mind—hopefully in specific ways to form the image or effect the author was after.
Source: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/ai-bird-brains-silicon-valley/#technology#links#artificial-intelligence