This chapter returns explicitly to the topic of authorship and artistic production presented earlier in the book and directly links this topic to the previous discussions on perceptions of AI and deference of responsibility. Specifically, this chapter considers examples of large language models and chatbots that emerged before ChatGPT, particularly Google’s research activities in this area. Considering the design and use of such systems in relation to Vilém Flusser’s philosophy of language, the chapter argues that these systems only appear to produce coherent communications while adhering to the purely formal language of mathematics. As such, these systems are not bound by the same moral and syntactical rules that human speakers recognise and abide by in cultural communication. To use such systems to communicate is to bypass the process of articulation and to defer responsibility of one’s own self-expression to the machine. By deferring the labour of communication to such AI systems, the human as author retreats ever inward and chooses not to participate in dialogue, thus leading to a culture filled only with illusions of self-expression and where there is no evidence of humanity at all.