Is this really a “post-literate” age?

This Week’s Highlights:The recording industry proposed labels distinguishing “AI-generated” from “AI-assisted” music (Deadline). Set it beside major publishers suing Google over the books that trained Gemini (The Guardian) and a pattern emerges — culture’s markets are beginning to price provenance. When the what can be manufactured infinitely, value perhaps migrates to the who and the how. The industry’s labels point at the machine.The week also su