Language and the Future: How Does AI Copy You?

If you’re a writer, AI copies your content and your style.

But let’s go a bit deeper. Suppose you learned journalism from reading the New York Times. You absorbed their way of stringing phrases and clauses and sentences together.

In a loose sense, you became an AI which copied the Times. So now AI will copy your copy.

And you’ll sink and vanish into a vast sea of that style of writing — a sea made hugely more extensive by machine AI.

So…developing your own unique style isn’t just a choice now; it’s a necessity.

And even then, AI will try to create copies of you. But…

If you’re unique in a number of ways, AI will fail. It’ll keep trying and it’ll come close in a few respects, but…

Anyone who is actually literate and truly wants to read writing will be able to tell the difference.

Nothing much is riding on that…except the question of whether society and civilization will become Total Machine.

If you can’t tell the difference between a machine talking to you and a creative human talking to you…

And nobody else can, either…

We’ll be living in Machine Land. Machine Brain Land.