Ed Zitron: There Is No AI Revolution (DAMNING analysis of a house of cards built by con men & venture capitalists)

[Prairie Gates]

8. Everytime somebody tells me AI writing is soooo good I feel like I'm talking to a fool

It's grammatically correct, and utterly mid. It's competent at pulling together the most banal observations about a thing, when it's not totally wrong. I don't doubt that it produces passable college papers, but the bar for that has always been very very low. The lack of insight, voice, elegance, incisiveness is evident to anyone who is moderately well read in a field or two. It's shocking that we're all supposed to believe this laughable hype about its quality. The miracle of AI is that a society that was very recently incompetent at writing can now have a machine produce average statements without a comma splice. For this we are expending resources and transforming all of social life. Meh. Meh, I say.