Among dark and satanic mills

The advent of Artificial Intelligence capable of generating thoughts and music prompts a stark realization, akin to exclaiming "The Emperor has no clothes!" Yet, the author argues, just as the fabric woven by mechanical looms was tangible, so too is the product of AI real. The fundamental difference between the false and the genuine now exists on an entirely different level.

William Blake's poem, "And did those feet in ancient time," often sung as a confident patriotic hymn, reveals a deeper layer upon closer examination. The initial verses pose rhetorical questions about Christ's presence in England, questions that are ultimately answered in the negative. The hymn, sung with such assurance, is textually steeped in doubt.

This re-examination of Blake's work is prompted by a concern AI could not have foreseen: what is lost when machines can replicate what humans once created by hand? This question, once confined to philosophical debate, has suddenly re-emerged with profound relevance in our current technological landscape.