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Stephen Marche’s article “The future of Writing Is a Lot Like Hip-Hop” argues that A.I isn’t just taking away writers positions in our society but the creativity and how you go about creating a piece of writing. Stephan’s main point is that writing based off pure creativity and thought, is now moving towards a direction of remixing different thoughts and samples of texts that has been fed to A.I. He uses hip-hop producers as a way to paint a picture of the direction writing is going towards. Hip-hop producers mostly sample and mix around preexisting music to create a beat, as for A.I when used for writing it generates a quantity of texts, mixes and refines them, instead of doing everything on it’s own. Another point that he made that ties into his main one is, A.I makes it difficult to create ideas of originality or any sorts of individuality when it comes to writers and their usage of A.I. Since it’s programed to grab different texts from preexisting materials and mix them up then format it in a way the user wants, it becomes difficult to see which is really the author original piece and which is a remix version of multiple different thoughts created from others. I think the ideas he presented in his article supports his argument because modern day writing as of right now is a bunch of peoples thoughts, ideas and opinions all mixed up together. Even without the usage of A.I, we get all these idea remixes through out our daily life interactions, researches, inspirations etc. We are a heavy online generation whether we like it or not, so naturally the internet will continue to be our main source and A.I would continue to develop.