A few days ago, a post on X went viral after an image featuring a host of religious and mythological figures was fed into Grok, Elon Musk’s A.I.

One needn’t become a torch-wielding luddite to, at the very same time, be cautiously apprehensive about the widespread embrace of A.I., particularly generative A.I. for creative work such as writing.

Over the last few years, humanity has ushered in a grave new world with the advent of Artificial Intelligence. A grave new world of increasing darkness and deception, all the while clothing its dark members in palatable shades of grey and muted tones of white as they issue from places of deep shadow; sometimes growing so bold as to masquerade as messengers of light.