1
Damon Knight: holy machine learning process! it seems that people don't AI slop being elligible for the nebula!
Knight: what to do?
Knight: i'll feed the question into the bat computer
Erin Underwood: never fear, erin underwood is here!
2
Erin Underwood: people don't like AI slop?
Underwood: don't worry, i'll use my methodical reasoning and clever arguments to explain
Underwood: why the issue of submitting to the will of the machine
Underwood: is just the smart thing to do
3
Underwood: look, i know that the AI stole your writing but
Barker: strong start
Barker: can't wait to see where you take this
Underwood: but, you know, it's really mean to point that out
Barker:
Barker: ahhaha
4
Underwood: sure, AI is built on plagiarism
Underwood: but that's the past
Underwood: stop living in the past!
Underwood: it's time to forgive and forget
Underwood: don't be an AI dinosaur, when you can AI dino-SOAR!
5
Underwood: AI is inevitable
Underwood: so use it, damnit
Underwood: c'mon
Underwood: c'mon
Underwood: c'mon!!!
Barker: yeah no
Underwood: you guys are all so mean!!!
6
Underwood: resistance is futile
Underwood: SUBMIT, PUNY FLESHLINGS
Underwood: EMBRACE THE DEATH OF THE MIND
Barker: i don't know about that
Underwood: wow, i'm still hearing a lot of hostility and not a lot of reasoned debate
7
Underwood: in the future, today's modern now-a-go-go writer will use AI for three different things, including idea generation, editing, translation, grammar, clean-up, idea generation, cloot, advetismmming, ggglllip, vvooooyyu, anddd yuuu
Barker:
Barker: are you a bot
Underwood: [clipping through wall] i am not a bot
8
Barker: i really think you're a bot
Underwood: okay you got me, i am actually a bot
Barker: so why'd you lie before and say you weren't a bot?
Underwood: wow! you're right
9
Underwood: you can use AI to interpret contracts
King: oh, really? maybe that would be useful
Barker: i have a follow-up question
Underwood: no questions
Barker: will the AI interpret the contracts correctly?
Underwood: SYNTAX ERROR
Underwood: ABORT RETRY FAIL?
@bitterkarella This right here is the zeitgeist.