Somewhat ironically, AI is the only way to get an audio version of your book; the Kindle EBook can be read using an Alexa device, although it took a few prompts to get it to work. I do see that as very much different from building a relationship with an AI or overusing it for research and writing.
A love letter to maintenance, of many kinds, is Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52193/filling-station (I have written about teaching this poem at West Point for Commonweal)
Somewhat ironically, AI is the only way to get an audio version of your book; the Kindle EBook can be read using an Alexa device, although it took a few prompts to get it to work. I do see that as very much different from building a relationship with an AI or overusing it for research and writing.
Knowing you, I’d guess you have a well-thought-out reason for saying “please” to the unensouled plagiarism machines. What is it?
I also say "sorry" to chairs when I bump into them. I'd rather err in the direction of reflexively polite for *my* sake, not theirs.