Just a thought…
Imagine that I’m too lazy or busy to read, so I set AI to the task of reading for me. Then I find myself equally averse to writing, so I prompt AI to write for me. Then my writing is published. It circulates. However, nobody can be bothered reading it, so they set AI to the task of reading, as well as to any consequent process of writing they may be inclined towards. Imagine, further, that the AI is busy and devolves these tasks to other agents, which themselves devolve the task to still other agents in an accelerating sequence of delegations. As the pace of reading and writing increases, more and more energy is expended but never shapes any human context of intellectual activity. What then becomes of reading and writing? What happens when it is both relentlessly recursive and altogether distinct from any focused moment of thought? We can recognise a discursive space of reading and writing where no actual reading or writing occurs, in which every intellectual activity is instantly displaced into processes of statistical analysis and stochastic repetition.