In the latest sign of the times, the Economic Times - the second most widely-read English-language newspaper in the world, as of 2012 - picked the word "Kafkaesque" as its "Word of the Day " earlier this week. But even the briefest glance at the accompanying illustration reveals that the piece involved little, if any, human oversight. The issue is the image at the top of the piece - which, to be fair, is labeled as being AI-generated - that attempts to write the word on a blackboard.