We are the AI rummaging through your head, as you write your list of all the things you dread.
Hans is an Automated Spelling System (ASS) found on most smartphones today that has turned our intellectual endeavors into hilarious buffoonery. Has anyone sent a message where Hans changed your sentence, long after you typed your way down the page, and when you sent your message, you became the butt of all jokes? Reduced to a retard by an AI totally goofing up your message. That, my friends, is the future of AI.
In my latest blog story, The Island, I decided to use AI to help with many of the mundane tasks of preparing text and images for publication. I use Grammarly Pro to help with grammar, punctuation, and proper use of the parts of speech. For the most part, Grammarly does a good job, until it doesn’t. I’ve also used ProWritingAid, MasterWriter, and a host of other AI-enhanced tools.
This time, I let Microsoft’s CoPilot AI help with editing. CoPilot actually outperforms the writing tools that charge subscription fees to use if you want more than the basics. For instance, Grammarly Pro is about $150 a year. I would give CoPilot an A+ for everything except writing or rewriting.
I decided to let CoPilot rewrite some of my uglier prose, and it made the story much uglier, but it was grammatically correct.
To put things in perspective, I used other AI’s popular today as a gauge. Google’s AI was an absolute moron and couldn’t follow any simple instructions. This is where we are with AI writing aids at the moment.
Here are some of the things I noticed CoPilot would help you do when editing or rewriting some of your text. It would use the same sentence over and over like a broken record. It loves to add constructs that read not this, not that, but this. Who cares what something isn’t? Tell us what it is. AIs love to write pure nonsense, stringing sentences together that would get you banned by a human editor from ever submitting your work again.
It often forgets where it is in your editing phase, moves things around, then does a Hail Mary and outputs a bullet list of 4-word sentences and calls it done.
However, the most fun I’ve had is in image creation. All of the images I post are from MS CoPilot, and it does all kinds of bizarre things to the human body. It inserts bizarre artifacts and changes Renate and David’s wardrobe between scenes. I decided to leave these nuances in the images so that you can have fun finding them and pointing them out. However, I did draw the line when CoPilot took David’s right forearm and, with a closed fist, created an impressive penis for Renate. She was fully clothed as usual, but apparently left her fly unzipped, and CoPilot took advantage of her. I thought this would totally wreck the story and take us down a comment rabbit hole; I did not want to entertain. After quite a bit of scolding, we finished up with something still worthy of your scorn.
So, yes, I did experiment with AI, and you may see some of the handiwork of these mentally ill algorithms in the story. Needless to say, AI is here to stay, but it isn’t ready for prime time. That isn’t stopping the government or businesses from fully implementing AI and then forgetting to set up a healthy supervision network of repurposed humans to keep the hallucinating AI from making us all look like buffoons.
Finally, Grammarly edited this post for proper punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure. I accepted all recommendations just so you could have fun asking yourself why did I put a semicolon there? Semicolons and hyphens are the AI’s bread and butter. They love those things.
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