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Does knowing change it?
A piece of writing moves you to tears. Then you learn a machine wrote every word. Does that change it?
The feeling came first. Then you learned who, or what, made the work.
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At a wedding a song makes you cry, and afterwards you find out it was written for a car advertisement. The song is the same. Your tears feel slightly foolish, or they don't, and it's hard to say which reaction is the honest one.
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