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Aesthetics
Would you read the label first?
Suppose a scanner could reliably tell you whether an essay was written by AI before you read it. Do you run it?
Knowing how a work was made can inform your judgment and change the encounter itself.
The live positions
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- 1Always. I want every fact about what I'm drinking before I let it act on me.
- 2Never. A label is an intervention, and I don't want it in my first read.
- 3After I read, to find out what the label would have changed.
- 4Only when I already suspect something; not as a reflex.
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