The Veggie Shelf

Greetings vegans everywhere. In light of the new developments with AI-generated content replacing human-written prose, I want to assure my readers (all three of you), that this blog will always be written by a fallible and flaw-ridden human: me. I also will do my best to keep this blog updated and full of content that will make great bedtime reading.  I keep reading (see this article in The Byte about Sports Illustrated laying off their staff) about respected and well-known publications turning to AI to write articles even though these publications do little to check content for inaccuracies and lies. These venerable publications are laying off experienced journalists to increase profits and lower expenses. Why don't they lay off the highly-paid executives running these publications? Instead, they chose to fire journalists and editors, the very people who make sure the content is both accurate and entertaining. And online news outlets are following their lead. Is this the final de...