Recently, the father of a former work colleague died.
The former colleague posted a lot about this on a social-media channel. There's nothing notable about this; to communicate a tragedy is to, hopefully, get over the worst of feelings, to help one to transition into feeling better, to sort-of convert sorrow into lovely memories.
Reading two lines of text made me realise the person had used AI to write their texts. All of them.
What the person wrote felt off-key and strange. It didn't feel human. I sent one of the texts to Pangram; the system reported a 'confidence high' that 100% of the text was AI-generated.
Here's my point:
Why the fuck do you want autocorrect on steroids to say something about your dead father?
How could you think it's a good idea to let AI—a system that acts mainly on probability factors—describe your dead father?
Can AI honour your father's memory in any way?
Finally: if you let AI, a mechanical system filled with bullshit that's made to sound not like yourself (unless you're as vapid as most AI systems), then you should be fucking replaced by AI.
To me, this is completely insane. I wholeheartedly want my former colleague and all of his friends and family to feel better soon, but to have AI affect your soul like this is the antithesis of having a soul at all.
Damn, this type of insanity makes me mad.
I'd prefer inertia to this. Or a 'I don't have words to describe how much I miss dad'. That would at least feel honest than letting a fucking machine tell people how much it misses your dead father.