The Sloppiest Thing About AI

There is a fashionable new way to avoid thinking. Notice an em dash, a tidy list or a sentence with suspiciously polished edges. Announce that AI was involved. Dismiss the whole thing. The post may be correct. The product may work. The patch may fix the bug. None of that matters once the detector in someone’s head has beeped. The work has been placed in the AI bucket, the bucket has been labelled…