<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The exchange is bidirectional rather than... > The exchange is bidirectional rather than mechanical. I can supply the durable quotations and ask the prose to bend around them, or I can ask a language model to propose quotations, then reject, revise, reorder, narrow, or rewrite them until they state what I am prepared to place under my name. New prose can expose a weakness in the quotation spine, just as a new article can expose a needed revision in the ontology; [[journal/2026-08-15 - Bidirectional Ontology and Semantic Elasticity|Bidirectional Ontology and Semantic Elasticity]] describes how that pressure should remain creative without allowing ordinary variation to become conceptual drift. {{A machine-generated quotation becomes part of an author's work only after the author has tested whether it states a conviction they are willing to preserve under their own name.}} [[reminders/Writing/A Machine-Generated Quotation Must Survive Authorial Judgment by Bryant McGill|∴]] {{Authorship survives delegation when the author remains the source of the constraints, the judge of the variations, and the person answerable for the result.}} [[reminders/Writing/Authorship Survives Delegation Through Judgment and Accountability by Bryant McGill|∴]] **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The exchange is bidirectional rather than mechanical. I can supply the durable quotations and ask the prose to bend around them, or I can ask a language model to propose quotations, then reject, revise, reorder, narrow, or rewrite them until they state what I am prepared to place under my name. New prose can expose a weakness in the quotation spine, just as a new article can expose a needed revision in the ontology; Bidirectional Ontology and Semantic Elasticity describes how that pressure should remain creative without allowing ordinary variation to become conceptual drift. A machine-generated quotation becomes part of an author's work only after the author has tested whether it states a conviction they are willing to preserve under their own name. ∴ Authorship survives delegation when the author remains the source of the constraints, the judge of the variations, and the person answerable for the result. ∴” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-exchange-bidirectional-rather-person-answerable-result ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->