Sorry, I couldn't get past "cries and whails" lollll.

I used to use this sentence when people would complain (when I worked in a call centre) about my colleagues who had accented voices. :D A biting critique of the human condition, I think!

AI having a place

Like all tools, it is HOW you use it. Just like there's an uncanny valley in computer graphics and robotics, I feel the same sense of uncanniness when reading AI generated text. I feel like I'm pretty good at detecting it. (And my Turing Test goes BEEEP BEEP BEEP, like Deckard from Blade Runner, or the version I much more prefer, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)

It is all about how you prompt the machine, and how you understand the response. I like to get a LLM to act as an "interviewer", to really interrogate and clarify my own intent for a piece of writing. Sometimes it gives me better ideas, or sometimes, it gives me horrible ones. It's up to the person's agency and their own brain to determine what is what.

The posts written for yourself are often the best ones, and when you find someone else that appreciates them, it is like falling into a sort of intellectual nirvana. HIVE gives me that feeling, and I thoroughly enjoy engaging in content that allows me to give back that feeling of intellectual nirvana to other authors.

At least, I try!