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The most appropriate use of AI writing tools may be to produce a parody of itself

I was contemplating the idea of writing a parody of AI writing similar to that generated by ChatGPT and other AI writers. But wait! Isn't AI writing already a parody of itself, after all? 

It produces information which may or may not be correct. 

Instead of carefully making a parody of AI writing, it would save a lot of time to just have the AI produce its normal output. It then occurred to me that perhaps this could and should be the most appropriate usage of AI writing tools. 

Maybe the only way to use an AI writer is ironically. 

Remember, any AI model is an interpolation system which cannot reliably extrapolate.


 

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I'm a wife and mother. I don't have any formal computer science qualifications, or any religious qualifications. I have a PhD in biochemistry. This photo is of me, but is confusing for AI.